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California officials said Monday that they had canceled a no-bid contract to promote the safety of aerial spraying for an invasive moth, acting after an Associated Press report about the deal.
Financially strapped states are looking to take away government health insurance and benefits from millions of Americans already struggling with a souring economy.
California's multibillion-dollar budget shortfall has grown, the state's nonpartisan fiscal watchdog said Wednesday as she offered a trim-and-tax plan that competes with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal for across-the-board cuts.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is dramatically overestimating the jackpot the state could collect if it sold the rights to operate the lottery to an outside company, according to confidential Wall Street analyses.
Four California tribes won the right Tuesday to add thousands of slot machines, as voters approved a major expansion of Indian gambling that prompted one of the state's costliest election battles.
Rooster owners here will have to silence their flocks.
Californians have more on their minds than just helping choose nominees for the White House — they'll also decide Tuesday whether to expand tribal gambling and whether to alter some of the nation's toughest legislative term limits.
A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she'd had an affair, authorities said Saturday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency in California Thursday, and released a state budget proposal that would close an estimated $14 billion gap by cutting education funds, releasing inmates and closing dozens of state parks.
For decades, a common fungus found on citrus in California was so insignificant that farmers say they nearly forgot about it.
For the first time, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a list of the millionaires and billionaires who pay to send him on lavish overseas trips, offering a glimpse into the elite business and social circles that critics say have unfair access to his power.
Several aircraft were able to fly in strong winds on the first full day of last month's Southern California firestorms, contradicting officials' earlier claims that the weather had grounded virtually all aircraft, according to documents released Saturday.
The Army is spending $2.6 billion on hundreds of European-designed helicopters for homeland security and disaster relief that turn out to have a crucial flaw: They aren't safe to fly on hot days, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press.
Members of a California National Guard military police company accused of stealing donations intended for Southern California wildfire victims were cleared Wednesday of criminal wrongdoing.
Members of a California National Guard military police company accused of stealing donations intended for Southern California wildfire victims were cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
Rapid housing development in wildfire-prone areas and continued bone-dry weather have alarmed California firefighters, who began a sweeping assessment of fire risk and what's needed to meet it.
A military police company from the California National Guard has been sequestered pending an investigation into whether troops took donations intended for Southern California wildfire victims, Guard officials said.
A week after flames engulfed Southern California, several firefighters are trying to forget the screams that pushed them to make a heroic rescue.
State and federal officials on Saturday blamed each other for allowing nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters to sit idle while deadly wildfires ravaged Southern California, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to improve the state's response to battling wildfires.
As wildfires were charging across Southern California, nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters and two massive cargo planes sat idly by, grounded by government rules and bureaucracy.
The fate of California's already late $145 billion budget remained in doubt Friday, as the state Senate leader declared a package of tax credits "dead on arrival" and the Republican minority insisted on more spending cuts.
A raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe on Monday forced hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
The California Highway Patrol suspended the hazardous materials license Friday of the company that owns the gasoline tanker that crashed and burned, causing a key San Francisco Bay area freeway ramp to collapse.
Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest pleaded not guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges stemming from a domestic dispute with his wife earlier this month.
A Democratic lawmaker has abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California's sometimes whimsical Legislature.
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