The current base pay for Cal State campus presidents ranges from $370,000 to more than $500,000. San Jose State University President Cynthia Teniente-Matson is paid $474,840.

The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.

Antonietta Nguyen was accused of using stolen funds to pay for personal travel, luxury purses and college tuition.

A new report estimates that California’s data centers are driving increases in electricity use, water demand and pollution even as lawmakers stall on oversight.

AT&T’s failed effort this year to retire copper landlines in parts of California seemed to have support from a diverse grassroots coalition. But many of the members had ties with the telecom giant.

California lawmakers faced a difficult budget year, but they still managed to put hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks in the state budget to benefit their districts — and help them get re-elected.

The judge has sided with scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling that the President used “unlawful coercion” against the University of California is the most sweeping yet.

The federal grand jury indictment accuses Williamson and four other co-conspirators of illegally spending $225,000, falsely claiming more than $1.7 million in fraudulent business expenses on her taxes, buying a $15,000 Chanel bag, chartering a jet and a spending nearly $170,000 birthday trip to Mexico.

Criminal penalties for filing false claims against police officers were enacted 30 years ago, but the state Supreme Court says the Los Angeles Police Department's warnings about this law could discourage complaints.

As of Nov. 10, there remained just 7,000 ballots to be counted in the race for Santa Clara County Assessor, out of more than 460,000 votes.

Undeveloped land within the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility will be home to data centers and manufacturing campuses that power AI revolution.

Sacramento could be moving to embrace temporary housing for unhoused people, as advocated by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, at the potential expense of long-term housing.

Santa Clara County voters overwhelmingly approved an increase in local sales taxes, which county officials say is necessary to help offset dramatic cuts in federal aid by the Trump Administration, mostly in health care.

Prop 50's statewide victory margin swelled to 2.4 million votes as of Nov. 6.

Four racial discrimination lawsuits against the automaker have been moved to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters reported at 10:50pm Nov. 4 that Fligor, who also is vice mayor of Los Altos, was more than 43,000 votes ahead of Rishi Kumar, a former Saratoga City Council member and former candidate for Congress.