Leon Messenie

Meter rates will increase to $10 an hour starting two hours before a baseball game or any major event "expected to draw 10,000 people or more," according to the city.

California just completed its Firehawk helicopter fleet — faster, stronger aircraft with high-flying capability. Cal Fire and Gov. Gavin Newsom say it’s a crucial upgrade as wildfires intensify.

El gobernador Gavin Newsom dice que pedirá a los votantes que decidan sobre nuevos distritos en noviembre, mientras California busca desafiar a los estados controlados por el Partido Republicano que están rediseñando los mapas para favorecer a los republicanos en las elecciones intermedias.

Many California cities require homebuilders to create affordable housing or pay fees to support construction of those units. A new lawsuit contends those fees are unconstitutional.

Victory in the Pacific examines the final year of World War II in the Pacific theater, including the rationale for using the atomic bomb, and features the first-hand recollections of both American and Japanese civilians and soldiers -- even a kamikaze pilot who survived his failed mission. "In the annals of warfare, the final year of the war in the Pacific stands alone," says director Austin Hoyt. "It would be as brutal as war gets." Victory in the Pacific traces that fateful year, from the American capture of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific in July 1944 to the surrender broadcast of Emperor Hirohito in August 1945.

Dozens of Texas Democrats left the state to protest a redistricting map, facing potentially steep consequences. Lawmaker walkouts have had mixed success in the past — so what is there to gain?