The California legislation would have required tech companies to test AI for harm to society. It attracted opposition from numerous members of Congress and major AI companies including Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants new gas reserves to dampen seasonal price spikes. California oil refiners say the move would require new storage tanks and force more price increases.

Cal State officials are projecting a 2025-26 budget hole of about $400 million to $800 million and warning of layoffs and cuts to academic programs. San Jose State has cut $55 million the past two years, by not hiring new staff and avoiding replacing non-faculty job openings.

Kamala Harris pledges to build 3 million affordable homes and apartments in her first term as president, but Gov. Newsom has fallen short on a similar campaign promise in California.

As part of a California reparations package, Gov. Newsom signed a bill to officially apologize for slavery, but he vetoed others sought by reparations supporters.

Bay Area Rapid Transit breached the 200,000 daily rider mark earlier this week for the first time since the pre-pandemic era, partly boosted by fans of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, according to the transit agency. BART's rider count on Tuesday was 204,265, including 7,286 riders who left the Coliseum station, according to a transit official. “We've been getting closer to the 200,000 mark on weekdays every week this month, and now we've finally broken through,” BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said in a statement.

Gov. Gavin Newsom lowered the guaranteed amount of funding for K-12 schools in this year’s budget. The California School Boards Association says the change is unconstitutional.

California is the seventh U.S. state to adopt mobile driver’s licenses for iPhones, part of a growing push by businesses and governments to make digital IDs commonplace.

The alliance between Kamala Harris and Laurene Powell Jobs is a genuine 20-year friendship that has thrust the press-shy billionaire philanthropist into the political spotlight.

California Coastal Commission cleanup sites reported that 28,751 volunteers scoured over 750 cleanup sites removing over 254,772 pounds of trash.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that Exxon Mobil has contributed greatly to global pollution by deceiving the public into believing that single-use plastics would be recycled if disposed of properly.

A bill awaiting the governor’s signature that makes it harder for consumers to get refunds for defective cars under the state’s lemon law was drafted in secret by auto manufacturers and attorneys.

At a press conference today, the victim was identified as Regulus Teotico, 45, a bus driver for 10 years and father of two teenagers.

In San Francisco, about 1,500 members of Unite Here Local 2 were on strike, along with others in San Mateo County and San Jose. They include servers, bartenders, housekeepers, dishwashers, bellhops, cooks, and other positions.

A VTA employees was shot and killed Friday evening at the VTA Chaboya Division Yard on the 2200 block of South 7th Street near Costco and the County Fairgrounds.

On the first survey question posed to likely 16th District voters, Liccardo leads Low 42% to 28%, according to a memo from the pollsters. The margin of error is plus or minus 4%.