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Unemployment rates in 363 U.S. metropolitan areas rose in January, and 346 areas reported year-on-year declines in their number of jobs, the Labor Department said on Friday.

A new Field Poll shows President Barack Obama continues to lose favor among Californians.

A California watchdog group says nursing assistants who lost their certification still found work caring for the elderly by hopping between arms of the same state agency.

IN CALIFORNIA, the criminal justice system's method of dealing with sexual predators who harm or even kill children is - to borrow a phrase - stuck on stupid.

California Sen. Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign is shaping up as the fight of her political career, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.

In this March 5, 2004 file photo, actor Fess Parker, who starred in "Davy Crockett" and "Daniel Boone", unveils a 180-year-old Kentucky long rifle as he presents it to the Alamo for its collection at the Alamo in San Antonio.

California lawmakers charged taxpayers for airfare totaling $2 million over a recent 2A1 2-year period, but the Legislature, citing security concerns, won't disclose the destinations or produce proof that all the trips were for official state business.

Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday with tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them undocumented Hispanics, in Washington, D.C., to dramatize their pleas for immigration reform.

In a hearing Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board will hear testimony from the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

California lawmakers on Thursday will consider what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts off the beach, eliminate second-hand smoke and reduce the threat of wildfires.

Three dozen current and former Hooters workers are suing over work and wage violations, saying they were forced to buy their own uniforms and work without pay.

Thousands of Californians who sold their homes in short sales or modified their mortgages last year are facing the prospect of huge state tax liabilities.

The commanding officer of the Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento has been temporarily relieved of duty, the Coast Guard announced Tuesday, five months after several crewmen died in a collision between one of the station's aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter.

Nearly one in four Californians under age 65 lacked health insurance during all or part of last year, well above the latest national average, in a trend fueled by shrinking coverage due to mounting job layoffs, a new study on Tuesday found.

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Spurred by budget crises, California and Michigan together reduced their prison populations by more than 7,500 last year, contributing to what a new report says is the first nationwide decline in the number of state inmates since 1972.The overall drop was slight, according to the Pew Center on the States - just 0.4 percent - but its report suggests ...

The federal receiver who runs California's prison health care system said Tuesday he will ask state lawmakers to approve four bills to control spiraling costs including proposals to restrict prisons' use of prescription drugs and outside medical specialists and to parole the sickest and costliest inmates.

Four California lawmakers who led a bipartisan effort to solve the state's budget crisis have been named to receive the annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

California's budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000 teachers their jobs this year.

An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.