California Law & Politics

The L.A. City Council has voted to move forward with an effort to stop landlords from quickly evicting tenants or raising rent before a new state rental law takes effect.

Gov. Newsom is facing criticism over his decisions for the $5 billion generated annually by gas taxes and vehicles fees that were increased by a 2017 law.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday urged PG&E to give money back to hundreds of thousands of customers affected by last week’s outages.

New California laws for those here illegally include letting them serve on government boards and banning immigration arrests in state courthouses.

Some money is being shifted from road construction to commuter rail in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help fight California’s war against climate change.

Newsom’s veto rate for his first year in office was the second lowest of any governor in the last 15 years.

The governor said legislators should send him a bill that phases out the use of “closed colonies,” where donor dogs are “kept in cages for months and years to harvest their blood for sale.”

A new California law requires middle and high schools in urban areas to delay start times to allow students to get more sleep.

A bill to curb late-night jail releases, passed in response to a woman’s overdose death after leaving county custody, is vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Senate Bill 600 declares that fertility preservation treatments are a basic healthcare service in California and required coverage by insurance plans.

Los Angeles Times reporters found two dozen cases in which a death investigation was harmed by the procurement of body parts.

How firms helped rewrite a law to make it difficult for coroners to stop them from harvesting body parts.