Seven candidates qualified as candidates for the April special election. The council had decided that no person could seek election to the coveted downtown council seat if they also sought appointment to the interim seat.

If no candidate receives a majority on April 8, the top two candidates will run against each other in a special runoff election on June 24. The winner will serve the remainder of the term through 2026.

The state’s plan to fix the insurance crisis had barely rolled out when the Los Angeles wildfires began. Can the market recover and stabilize?

California legislators want to limit deportation actions at schools, but they can’t ban immigration officials.

A conservative organization led by Trump adviser Stephen Miller sent letters to California leaders warning of ‘serious consequences’ over sanctuary policies that protect undocumented residents. San Jose became a sanctuary city in 2007. San Francisco also declared itself a sanctuary city in 1989.

The California state budget has been a rollercoaster over the past few years. Big deficits generally mean cutting plans and programs.

San Jose police said Lucien Cabrera, 19, built illegal guns in his San Jose home and brazenly marketed them on social media.

The last 150 feet of the wharf collapsed into the Monterey Bay at around 12:45pm, city officials said. The city had already determined that the end of the wharf needed to be taken down and repaired after it was damaged in storms over the past several years.

New California law prevents schools from requiring staff to notify parents if a student identifies as LGBTQ. It’s in response to some districts requiring staff to notify parents when students identify as a gender other than what’s in their official files.

California may have more than a million fighting birds, according to the Center for a Humane Economy.

Sutter Health said it will develop 1 million square feet across two Santa Clara campuses less than a mile apart ‘to bring connected, comprehensive care closer to home.’

Scotts Valley police said six cars were overturned and another 10 or so were damaged by the twister, which hit the center of Mt. Hermon Road at 1:40 pm.

Florida-based manufacturer Jabil is suing Human Bees, a San Leandro staffing agency, that sent unauthorized workers to its manufacturing sites, as businesses brace for an immigrant enforcement storm from the Trump administration.

When disaster strikes, California gets federal funding to hire temporary workers to clean debris. But the jobs are tough, and some agencies struggle to manage the grants.

The county appeared to have been caught by surprise when informed three weeks ago of the DA's dumpster discoveries, releasing a statement Friday that didn't deny the allegations and affirming its commitment "to prevent future occurrences."

The National Weather Service had issued the warnings for Northern California and parts of southern Oregon after the quake was detected at 10:44am off the coast of Ferndale, about 250 miles north of San Francisco.