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Twenty-three men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and seven other people are scheduled to be put to death in five states during the remainder of 2025. A South Carolina man's execution on Friday evening was…

California’s first-in-the-nation privacy agency is retreating from an attempt to regulate artificial intelligence and other forms of computer automation.

A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden.

The family of a pilot who died when his helicopter crashed while fighting a Southern California wildfire in 2020 has reached a $15 million settlement with the company that maintained the aircraft.

A debate over whether to create harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from older teenagers exploded in the California Legislature this week.

As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network of marine protected areas.

The University of California has announced that James B. Milliken will be the next president of the system.

It was Dec. 4, 2021. The game was over. San Antonio knocked off Golden State 112-107.

Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with Friday's release Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*.” May also brings big studio releases like a live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” “Mission: Impossible 8” and a new Wes…

California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy-duty trucks on public roads.

The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.

California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program.

Fishing regulators have voted to close the 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California for an unprecedented third year running.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new legislation that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the work by easing environmental permitting.