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The agency that regulates the state's utilities is not getting a major overhaul, despite a political consensus that one is needed.

NPR's politics team annotated Trump's speech on immigration, which comes after a week of seeming to change direction on the issue.

NPR's politics team annotated Trump's speech on immigration, which comes after a week of seeming to change direction on the issue.

Opponents of Proposition 56, California’s proposed $2 per pack cigarette tax hike, are flooding radio airwaves with attacks on the measure.

Four decades after he signed the nation's first law giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights, Gov. Jerry Brown will again consider a historic proposal calling for farmworkers to receive the same overtime pay as other hourly workers.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw comes as the law faces its first test with the end of summer break.

The law, passed last summer, no longer allows parents to waive school vaccination requirements due to personal or religious beliefs. Medical exceptions are still allowed.

A measure designed to curb the practice of doctor shopping for prescription painkillers has cleared both houses of the California Legislature.

A "personal belief exemption" can be used by a parent to opt-out of vaccinating their school-aged child. But with a recent outbreak of measles in California, legislators are calling for their elimination.

According to a report by the city's Independent Budget Analyst, a proposed tax on San Diego businesses selling recreational marijuana could generate about $22 million for city coffers in the first year.