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Californians may want to hold on to their empty Chardonnay and Pinot bottles: It won’t be long before the state is paying 10 cents each for them, the same as it does for most other beverage containers.

The law goes into effect on 1 January

LOS ANGELES — A 25-year-old Anaheim, California, man is facing felony charges of assault and hate crimes in connection with violent attacks against women in Orange County, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Firearms groups have filed a widely anticipated legal challenge against a California gun law modeled after Texas' vigilante antiabortion legislation.

Dad Anthony John Graziano was on the run after killing his wife, Tracy Martinez, in California on Monday morning when he adducted his daughter as police hunted him down

Climate crisis has upped the ante in the state where progress has been hampered despite a considerable budget allocation

A California case in which police used DNA gathered from a woman who’d been raped to implicate her later in an unrelated crime is egregious on several levels. Not only is it a privacy invasion of Orwellian proportions to use DNA gathered from a victim to turn her into a…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public slugfests with the governors of Texas and Florida over immigration and abortion is generating important national attention. But perhaps even more importantly — assuming he has further political aspirations — his more aggressive demeanor is endearing him to influential Democratic insiders.

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.