SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters will decide in November whether to remove an exemption for involuntary servitude from the state...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with states challenging part of the Clean Air Act, specifically the Environmental Protection Agency's "Good...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California initiative to once again make shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders is developing into a contest over...

Voters in Temecula, California, have ousted the local school board president who thrust the political body to the forefront of rightwing culture wars...

Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo with...

Polls opened in Iran on Friday for a run-off presidential election that will test the clerical rulers’ popularity amid voter apathy at a time of...

Two years after the US Supreme Court stripped constitutional protections for abortion, the explosive issue will feature prominently in Thursday's...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito joined the other conservative judges in declaring that "gratuities" are not the same as...