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State lawmakers Friday denied reports the Legislature is set to vote on a plan to triple vehicle licensing fees to help solve California's whopping budget deficit.

President George W. Bush has given final approval for a new border crossing east of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.

Thousands of gay rights supporters rallied outside the state capitol Saturday to protest a voter-approved ban on gay marriage.

A state appeals court says a California ballot measure that prevents sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park amounts to an additional punishment for the original crime.

Jennifer and Todd Hemsley had to give up their child to save her.

Like thousands of other would-be parents, the California couple made a $15,500 down payment to a U.S. agency that guaranteed quick, hassle-free adoptions of Guatemalan babies. And like the others, they were caught in a bureaucratic limbo after Guatemala began cracking down on systemic fraud last year.

Many Americans with pending adoptions lobbied hard for quick approval of their cases, trying to bypass a new system designed to prevent identity fraud and the sale or even theft of children to feed Guatemala's $100 million adoption business.

A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake problems or human error as possible causes.

U.S. regulators have shut down two banks based in Southern California, saying they fell victim to the acute distress in the housing market in that state.

California's spending on inmate medical and mental health care has surged 554 percent since 1995, dwarfing the increase in inmates during that same period, a state defense witness testified Friday during a ...

LOS ANGELES: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is ready to take a job at the White House if President-elect Barack Obama feels he can be of service.

The state's unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent in October, reports the California Employment Development Department .

This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.

With the U.S. all but certainly in a recession and many skittish consumers hesitant to buy even a Honda Accord, it would seem the last thing anyone would need is a $400,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.

In two undecided open-seat House races, both candidates are playing Congress member-elect this week.

Both the eventual winners and the eventual losers from too-close-too-call contests in California and Ohio came to Washington for new-lawmaker orientation _ though only one contender from each race will ever get sworn in.

'I don't know as I'd say stressful, but certainly it's a little bit different circumstance than the other members here,' said Democrat Charlie Brown, who is running narrowly behind Republican Tom McClintock to represent California's 4th Congressional District north of Sacramento.

Sheikh Adbulla of Bahrain gave Michael Jackson more than 676,000 before he had even met the singer, he told the High Court during his legal bid to regain 4.7 million from the popstar.

Cookie Smith was surprised to learn the fake lawn that earned her a home-beautification award violated a city ban on artificial grass.

A 30,300-acre complex of wildfires that burned hundreds of Southern California homes was declared fully contained Wednesday and crews turned their attention to mopping up the smoldering remains.

Nov 19, 2008 4:21 pm US/Pacific Anglers and salmon lovers beware: Some of the state's most prized native fish could disappear by century's end, according to a new report by the advocacy group California Trout.

Rep. Henry Waxman of California won backing from a House Democratic leadership panel Wednesday to replace veteran Rep.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his counterparts in 12 states and regional leaders from four other countries signed a declaration Wednesday pledging to work together to combat global warming, a move Schwarzenegger ...

California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.