Governor Gavin Newsom approved 890 new laws last year. Most of them went into effect at the beginning of the calendar year, but a few have July 1 start dates.

At Stanford University and the University of Southern California, 14%t of students who were admitted in the fall of 2022 had legacy or donor connections, while 13% of 2022 admissions at Santa Clara University were children or grandchildren of alumni. 

California lawmakers want to exclude restaurants from a new law that aims to eliminate surprise costs for consumers.

The growing strike may complicate matters for the more than 169,000 undergraduate students at six campuses as they wrap up instruction and take final exams.

The bill adds new rules about employee supervision at stores with self-checkout and restricts self-service to customers buying 10 or fewer items.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning today for Northern California coastal areas, including the Bay Area.  A flood watch is in effect for the Bay Area and Central Coast through Friday morning. The weather service forecast for San Jose features rain for at least the next two weeks.

Roughly half of Californians with private health insurance receive medical care from Kaiser Permanente.

The more moderate weather this year broke a streak of three straight scorching summers, each ranking among the state’s 10 hottest ever recorded.

A wet winter may have delayed the state’s fire season, but it could ultimately make the blazes worse.

As the state verifies eligibility for its Medicaid program after a pandemic pause, up to 2.8 million Californians could be kicked off the rolls.

Consumers throw away more food than they need to because of confusing product labels, advocates say.

Prospective jurors in Santa Clara County and the rest of the state are not paid on their first day of jury duty, then receive just $15 per day and 34 cents per mile, round trip from home. The new bill would offer the higher stipends for two years to low-income jurors in Monterey, Alameda, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kern counties.

The Times profiled 30 people, who talked about their experience with homelessness, part of an effort to illuminate the challenges and occasional mundanity of unhoused people’s lives.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration will expire on Feb. 28, almost three years after it began. It gave Gov. Gavin Newsom broad power to issue mandates intended to slow the spread of the virus, as well as to bypass certain state laws.

Liccardo, a former city councilman, led the Bay Area city through a pandemic, a mass shooting, a homelessness crisis, a horrific flood and more.

The new law makes California the first state that will automatically seal most criminal records for those who complete their sentences.