Senate Bill 948, introduced in February by Berkeley Democrat Jesse Arreguin, would require anyone buying a firearm in California to first complete a four-hour safety course with a certified instructor, then obtain a state-issued "firearms safety certificate."
An industrial chemical tank at risk of exploding forced roughly 50,000 residents out of their homes in Garden Grove, California, as the Memorial Day weekend got underway, with authorities providing no estimate for when evacuees can return.
Vice President J.D. Vance announced Wednesday that the federal government is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement payments to California, citing the state's failure to rein in rampant fraud in its program.
The Fresno County Supervisors voted 3-2 that public libraries cannot recognize Pride month and cannot participate in the Fresno Rainbow Pride Festival.
Humboldt County, California election officials discovered 596 sealed, uncounted ballots sitting inside a locked drop box six months after voters cast them in a statewide special election that approved a redistricting measure backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats.
California's state government has funneled at least $41 million in combined state and federal grants to the Council on American-Islamic Relations' California affiliate over the last five years, according to a new investigation, despite the group's documented ties to Hamas financing networks and incendiary rhetoric from its own leadership.
The California Energy Commission announced that it issued an administrative investigative subpoena to Golden State Wind LLC, seeking information related to the company's agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to abandon its offshore wind lease.
The final oil tanker from the Middle East arrived at the Port of Long Beach on Monday, and California's oil industry unloaded on the state's Democratic leadership the same day it arrived.
