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What's good for Facebook and its employees could be very good for California's treasury.
California faces a smaller budget deficit in the coming fiscal year but will require nearly $5 billion in cuts to public education if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to raise taxes in the fall, the governor said Thursday in releasing its budget proposal for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday ordered $1 billion in midyear cuts to California's budget that will result in pain for students who rely on school buses to get to class, mothers who depend on child care subsidies to keep working and support programs for the developmentally disabled.
Gov. Jerry Brown filed a ballot initiative on Monday asking California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more money for schools and public safety.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he is filing a ballot initiative to ask California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more money for schools and public safety.
California faces $2 billion in automatic spending cuts at the first of the year that will reduce funding for public schools, higher education and a range of state services, according to a nonpartisan fiscal analysis released Wednesday.
California's governor announced Friday that he signed a bill banning the sale, trade and possession of shark fins to protect the world's dwindling shark population.
Squaw Valley USA, the iconic Lake Tahoe-area resort that has been home to some of the country's top downhill skiers, is joining operations with neighboring Alpine Meadows in a deal to be announced Tuesday.
Heated debate in the Republican presidential race over child vaccinations also is playing out in California as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown considers whether to a sign a bill allowing children as young as 12 to get vaccinated against sexually transmitted diseases without their parents' consent.
A fugitive who spent the last 36 years on the run after escaping from a California prison camp is in custody after investigators used records of telephone calls possibly made by his dying mother to track him down, authorities announced Monday.
A study released Friday by a pension-reform group suggests California state and local governments could save billions of dollars a year by moving to a hybrid retirement plan similar to one used by the federal government.
In a story July 29 about new California political maps, The Associated Press reported erroneously that commissioner Michelle DiGuilio is a Democrat. She is registered as a decline-to-state voter, meaning she has no party preference.
California's secretary of state on Tuesday cleared a group to begin collecting signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn a first-in-the-nation law requiring public schools to teach the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies lessons
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed a bill that will let students who entered the country illegally receive private financial aid at California's public colleges, even as debate continues over a more contentious bill that would allow access to public funding.
A California man who trolled women's Facebook pages searching for clues that allowed him to take over their email accounts was sentenced Friday to more than four years in state prison after a judge rejected a plea for a lighter sentence and likened the man to a peeping Tom.
California borrowed $5.4 billion from private investors Tuesday as a hedge against a possible default by the federal government.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.
California's treasurer says the state is preparing to borrow as much as $5 billion in short-term loans if the federal government misses its Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
One of the nation's leading bond-rating agencies upgraded its outlook for California's finances Thursday after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a rare on-time budget in time for the start of the new fiscal year.
California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.
California and Greece might share enviable weather and postcard-worthy beaches, but their fiscal problems aren't the same, according to a Standard & Poor's report released Tuesday.
Melanie Sill, the editor and senior vice president of The Sacramento Bee, is leaving her post after four years of steering the newspaper through industry challenges brought on by the recession and the changing habits of news customers.
In an unprecedented public give-and-take, Gov. Jerry Brown appeared before a legislative committee Thursday and engaged rank-and-file lawmakers in a discussion about how to address California's $26.6 billion budget deficit.
Gov. Jerry Brown has found an unlikely new best friend in his efforts to work with Republicans and fix California's budget mess.
In the latest departure from his predecessor's plans for trimming a multibillion-dollar budget gap, Gov. Jerry Brown has dropped a lawsuit over whether his office has the authority to pay minimum wage to state workers.
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