Newsom’s Medi-Cal budget plan would shift money for voter-approved increases in doctors’ pay and reproductive care to cover other expenses. State spending on Medi-Cal has more than doubled since 2017 and is now projected to cost $76.8 billion.

As lawmakers rush through thousands of bills in Sacramento and make decisions in secret, regular Californians are often silenced.

Waymo will be the first driverless taxi operator in San José, joining San Franciso and Los Angeles.

Google and California struck a deal last year to fund local news. Now Gov. Newsom is proposing to pull back two-thirds of the state commitments. Google could follow suit.

To save more than $5 billion, the California governor wants to shut down new enrollment for adults who lack legal status and charge premiums. The Legislature has resisted such changes.

In his latest push to crackdown on homeless encampments, Gov. Gavin Newsom urges cities to make certain camps illegal.

The mayor said the city can use repeat, non-violent misdemeanor charges to work with the Mental Health and Drug Courts to help compel people to engage in treatment.

Unprecedented approval for State Farm after L.A. fires means it can raise premiums in California next month.

San José Unified School District voters had approved a $72 parcel tax, which provides approximately $5 million a year, in 2016. The tax expires June 30.

The settlement relates to a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant that Vimaan Robotics obtained from the National Science Foundation.

California lawmakers called an informational hearing on mental health services at Kaiser Permanente, but the company didn’t attend.

The San Jose Police Officers’ Association said the stabbing suspect was on probation and was wanted on a felony warrant.

The DA's Cold Case Unit said the body of Jeanette Ralston, then 24-years-old and living in San Mateo, was found in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle near a San Jose apartment complex in 1977. Police said she had been strangled and raped, and the killer had tried unsuccessfully to burn the car.

It’s been five months since California’s legislative leaders deemed affordability an “urgent” issue for the session. So far: committees, bills, but few results.

Acrylamide caused cancer in animals in studies where animals were exposed to acrylamide at very high doses. Dietary acrylamide forms from sugars and an amino acid that are naturally present in food and can form in some foods during high-temperature cooking processes, such as frying, roasting and baking, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In the settlement approved last week, Sun Bum was ordered by the court to pay $300,000 in civil penalties and to stop false advertising of any of its chemical sunscreens.