CA Debt Consolidation in California

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed an $18 billion deficit-cutting package Tuesday that legislative Democrats characterized as the only 'game in town.'

The Legislature has had three special sessions since the November election to address California's worsening budget deficit, projected at $42 billion over the next 18 months.

But the latest package passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature did not meet the governor's demands for making more cuts, streamlining government and creating economic stimulus, his spokesman Aaron McLear said Tuesday evening.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says he is withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation.

The only ticket to match all the winning numbers and Mega Ball from Friday night's drawing was sold in California.

There used to be a time when people who called Linda Jahraus ' home in Laguna Beach , Calif.

The office of state Controller John Chiang says he suffered a mild heart attack.

President-elect Barack Obama's plan to jolt the economy by overhauling the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems has local officials clamoring for their share despite questions as to whether the program ...

THIS HAS been a year that most Californians - and especially those in elected office - would wish never happened, a year of severe economic decline that pushed hundreds of thousands onto unemployment rolls, and ...

Mexico sent 10 alleged drug smugglers to the United States on Wednesday, capping an already record year for extraditions between the two countries.

A dispute over which union should unload a vessel carrying steel for the Bay Bridge seismic retrofit project was resolved shortly before 5 p.m. today, according to California Department of Transportation ...

State Controller John Chiang remains in good condition at a Texas hospital after he checked himself in last week while experiencing chest pains.

One man and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in Richmond while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday as they searched for a fourth suspect.

Officers arrested Humberto Hernandez Salvador at his Richmond home Wednesday night, Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan said. The 31-year-old is being held without bail on gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking charges.

Police on Wednesday also arrested a 15-year-old Richmond boy and a 16-year-old Hercules boy, who were being held at a juvenile detention center on similar charges. Their names were not released.

Samer Naif, a student at the University of California San Diego, sits atop a scinillometer transmitter in an Alfalfa field in Blythe, Calif.

There have been no reports of injury or damage after a small earthquake struck near the town of Cobb in Northern California.

California is suing the Bush administration to block last-minute endangered species regulations that are intended to reduce input from federal scientists.