Full Coverage: Gov. Brown signs $15 minimum wage bill

Question: My teenage son’s job last summer was as a counselor at a day camp sponsored by a local private school.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is back, and he is again gunning for California’s businesses.

Los Angeles was once the epicenter of apparel manufacturing, attracting buyers from across the world to its clothing factories, sample rooms and design studios.

Early Sunday morning, Jewel Walker gets home from her full-time job as a wheelchair assistant at this city’s airport and sets her alarm clock for 6 a.m.

When California legislators voted to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022, labor activists cheered.

Anyone unconvinced about a New York-California rivalry had some tough evidence to overcome Monday, as both states moved to enact minimum wage hikes to $15 an hour, the highest in the country, within hours of one another.

With the stroke of a pen, Andrew Cuomo got a beat on Jerry Brown.

The California public’s view of the state Legislature has improved remarkably in recent years.

Security guard Kenneth Lofton was among the workers who benefited last year when this East Bay city hiked its hourly minimum wage to nearly $15 for employees at large companies.

In a move that puts California at the forefront of efforts to raise wages for low-income workers across the country, the Legislature approved a sweeping plan Thursday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, boosting the future paychecks of millions of the state’s workers.

The people who stand to benefit most from minimum wage hikes across California are low-income adults, most of them household breadwinners, according to an analysis by UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.

California’s restaurants and retail stores would be ground zero for the impact of the proposed statewide $15 minimum wage.

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The ongoing debate over tipping, service charges and the minimum wage for restaurant employees has been a much talked about subject in the Los Angeles dining scene for quite some time now.

Behind the counter of Tortilleria San Marcos in Boyle Heights, news that lawmakers and unions had arrived at a deal that would boost California’s minimum wage to $15 was greeted with relief, then anxious arithmetic.

A deal that would raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour was met with a mixture of joy and anxiety across the state Sunday.

Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement.

Backers of a $15 statewide minimum wage initiative have collected enough signatures to put their proposal on the ballot in November.

The Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday night approved a minimum wage ordinance that would put it in line with its neighbors in Los Angeles city and county.