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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has recovered $1.1 billion in fraudulent payments from federal COVID relief programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Tuesday.

California lawmakers say they'll investigate why the state's gas prices are the highest in the U.S. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a bipartisan committee on Monday to investigate gas price gouging

SACRAMENTO — For the last two years, Syd Winlock has had a major burden lifted from his surgically repaired shoulder.

California lawmakers are finally sending Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would bar police from making arrests on a charge of loitering for prostitution, nine months after it passed the Legislature

Plagued by years of funding shortages and spiraling costs, California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project suffered another unexpected blow this month in a new report that more than tripled the cost estimate for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment to a staggering $5.3 billion.

A controversial bill to repeal a provision of California law that prohibits loitering with the intent to sell sex is on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, nine months after it passed the Legislature and deeply divided Democrats, sex workers and trafficking survivors along the way.

California is on the verge of losing a golden opportunity to finally fix its problematic recall rules.

In many of the states with the nation’s most aggressive climate goals, officials are investing millions of dollars to save the power source that was long the No. 1 target of many environmental activists: nuclear plants.

California Senate and Assembly Republicans gathered on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday to call out Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers for what they described as 100 days of inaction on suspending the gas tax. Republicans have pushed for the measure since January.

With the planet warming at an unsustainable rate, two large Bay Area oil refineries are switching to liquid biofuels production — a seemingly cleaner alternative than fossil fuels. But those plans instead have run afoul of environmental groups that have filed lawsuits to bring the transition to a halt.

The governor of California stood in a patch of dry brown grass as he made his proclamation: