The governor’s California Blueprint bolsters the state’s ongoing work to address COVID-19, climate change, homelessness, inequality and fighting crime.

Ash Kalra of San Jose leads a group of Democratic legislators that Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes.

Legislators may work on paid leave policies, employee data protections, farmworker elections, while ballot measure proposals could impact businesses and business groups will raise the issue of California’s unemployment insurance fund debt.

Masks must be worn in all indoor public places in the state regardless of vaccine status, the state Department of Public Health said in a Jan. 5 evening post on Twitter.

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

Monthly poll panelists believe that mandatory lockdowns aren't necessary because of widespread availability of vaccines, and roughly half believe that Sheriff Laurie Smith should resign or serve out the balance of her term and not seek re-election.

Assembly Democrats want to use $10 billion out of a projected $30 billion surplus to repair and expand K-12 school facilities to accommodate new transitional kindergarten and community schools approved in 2021.

Explosive anger was a top contender for emotion of the year in 2021. A month-by-month look at some of the stories.

How risky is it to attend a New Year’s Eve party?

The new order is made in light of the emergence in Santa Clara County of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and the 'imminent threat' that it poses to the health of vulnerable residents and the capacity of the healthcare system.

Worsening droughts, competition for scarce supplies, sea level rise, groundwater contamination, earthquakes, wildfires and extreme weather all contribute to California water woes.

In his annual State of the City report, Mayor Sam Liccardo said that in 2021, the city suffered through 'the loss of loved ones to a lingering pandemic, the horrors of mass shootings, the sight of encampments and shuttered storefronts, and the struggles of too many families unable to pay rent.'

Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld of The Chabad House said the Jewish synagogue on Branham Lane in San Jose was damaged by fire after 'someone lit a fire in the carport.'

CSU Students apparently won't be affected by a faculty walkout in the spring. as the state university system and its faculty union announce a tentative contract that includes raises and a COVID-19 bonus.

Mayor Sam Liccardo's proposed mandate would make San Jose the first city in California to require booster shots.

The three new congressional districts for the San Jose metro area include the first majority Latino district, and another that is the first predominantly Asian district.