The Latest Breaking News from California

Properties featured in festive favourites are currently worth an absolute mint - from Cameron Diaz’s California Mansion in the Holiday to Walter Hobbs' New York apartment in Elf

LOS ANGELES — California is now reporting very high flu levels, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the respiratory illness continues to surge nationwide.

At 13, Maddie Delaney was first chair viola in the orchestra at her San Leandro middle school, keeping rhythm for the violins as her mother, Jennifer Williams, puts it — until she began to have delusions.

Republican farmer John Duarte won an open congressional seat in the Central Valley, defeating Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray despite Democrats' strong voter registration advantage in the district.

Republican John Duarte defeated Democrat Adam Gray in a new California U.S. House district in the Central Valley farm belt that produced the closest congressional contest in the state this year

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 University of California faculty members are imploring Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators to wade into the ongoing academic workers strike and urge UC leaders to meet union demands.

The panel estimates the state’s total payout for reparations to be nearly $570bn

The case is not rendered moot or unripe, the court says, by the California AG's "commitment not to seek attorney's fees or costs under this provision 'unless and until a court ultimately holds that the fee-shifting provision in [a similar Texas law provision related to abortion] is constitutional and enforceable....'"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tommy Frederick Allan says he knows he’s going to prison, that after scaling the walls of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on a rope, stealing an American flag and some documents from the Senate chamber and later declaring on social media that it was the…