Today, the new Senate president pro tem — Democrat Monique Limón of Goleta in Santa Barbara County — is the upper house’s ...

Amid concerns that there might be as large as an $18 billion budget deficit in the coming year, California lawmakers started ...

After an hours-long tour of the California City Detention Center -- the state's newest and largest -- U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla ...

California Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a bid to prevent the state from using a new ...

CBS News California Investigates correspondent Julie Watts looked into why state lawmakers killed a bill that would have ...

Limón is two weeks into her new leadership role and has said she's in the process of figuring out where the state's other ...

The bill is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and nine other states have similar legislation in place already.

The leader of the Utilities and Energy Committee breaks down her priorities on energy affordability, data centers and nuclear ...

If Assembly Speaker, AKA Mr. Affordability, Robert Rivas can’t show up, what hope do working class Californians have, asks ...

OPINION: The California legislature has a powerful potential tool to push back against the excesses of the Trump ...

Assembly Bill 710, authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, was born out of an effort to save money for ...