One of the big fears about Obamacare has been that insurers will charge exorbitant prices for plans sold on state exchanges, meaning the law would have the opposite effect of its goal to make health care more affordable. But that's not happening in California.
The massive wildfires flattening thousands of acres in Southern California were predictable. As was the cause that Governor Jerry Brown blamed yesterday: climate change.
Powerball, the ubiquitous lottery game, finally arrived in California on Monday, and began to spread its enticing message of easy, instant fortune to residents of the Golden State.
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So, after yesterday's Russian meteor, and the asteroid passing that could have leveled an entire city, we thought the brief "space stuff falling from the sky" trend was over. But that's not the case. The U.S. just needed to have its own meteor sighting.
The former San Francisco mayor and current lieutenant governor of California is an apologist for Google Plus and Michael Savage.
While everyone was tuning into the Super Bowl last night, emergency crews were called to California's Route 38 in San Bernadino County where a crash involving a tour bus killed at least eight people and injured 42.
Debra Saunders on the White House press corps, Maureen Dowd on President Standoffish, Simon Jenkins on EU membership, Karin Klein on the right to die, and Mark Mills on California's fracking goldmine.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he doesn't plan on letting it stop him from doing his job. Not even while he's getting radiotherapy.
Drunk drivers are not the biggest problem on California's roads according to a new survey from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Paying more in taxes, a safe sex-mandate, rejecting the abolishment of the death penalty—what is going in California?
Scientific American on Prop. 37, The New York Times on Southern peanut farmers, Clean Technica on new LEDs, Reuters on the new nor'easter, The Wall Street Journal on Japan going rogue.
On Tuesday, California voters overwhelmingly approved two ballot initiatives that were sharply opposed by the very same "victims" they were allegedly designed to protect.
Jerry Brown's decided to relegate therapy designed to convince minors they aren't gay to "the dustbin of quackery," in California. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday evening that Brown signed a bill that night banning gay-to-straight therapy for minors.
Until this month, the San Francisco Police Department only had four categories for identifying the race of someone arrested: White, black, other, and Chinese.
Journalists in Sacramento are not happy about a Thursday report that its NBA team, The Kings, were in talks to move to Virginia Beach, which comes through in the local media's immediate, en masse takedown of the story in the Virginia-based Inside Business.
A burglar who allegedly broke into the late Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home and stole $60,000 worth of computer equipment had no idea of its significance, said a prosecutor who called the burglary "totally random."
Non-lethal projectiles like beanbags, rubber bullets, and pepper balls still leave a hell of a mark, and those marks are becoming a large part of the story of Anaheim's ongoing police brutality protests as people share them on Twitter.
The crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California reached a new level on Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. There's still hope, though. Not all of the pot stores are closing.
California maps could be emptier the next time you buy a map, whenever that might be. Three towns have filed for bankruptcy over the last month, and now some are expecting smaller towns could just... disappear.
We don't know when it was determined that we could not read books of substance on the beach. But with the help of some literary-minded friends of The Atlantic Wire, we're calling hogwash on this verdict.
The most important election Tuesday is the vote to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but the funnest election is the California Republican Senate primary, where birther queen Orly Taitz has some chance of becoming an actual Republican nominee.
The New York Times' coverage of a proposed $1-per-pack tobacco tax increase in California raises an incongruity with the state's reputation as tough on tobacco: It has, for now, some of the cheapest cigarettes in the country.
In today's Ad Watch: The Republican National Committee says Obama forgot the recession, while Obama says you guys just don't know how far we've come. Plus, the worst political ad all year.
Today, the American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2012 report, on the quality of the air in the U.S., and as these things tend to go, the good news is always tempered with some bad.
A day after the fourth-ever U.S. case of mad cow disease was confirmed in a California dairy cow, officials are characterizing it as an example of effective inspections, but from other reports it sounds like it was basically a lucky break.
Californians like their death penalty. They tend to vote for it whenever an initiative or supporter hits the ballot. But the latest initiative to end it just might pass not because its proponents argue the death penalty's wrong, but that it's too expensive.
In your potentially troubling environmental news of the day, there are only two states in the U.S. that aren't experiencing "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, meaning that the country is the driest its been since 2007.
Discovered: Unprecedented ocean acidification, weed does and doesn't impair memory, a strike against wine snobs and california isn't that fat anymore.
California Representative and House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier announced that he will not seek reelection on Wednesday, succumbing to the new citizens-drawn California districts that he once tried to overturn.
Today in questions you didn't ask but are damn well getting the answers to, a Public Policy Polling survey ranked the 50 U.S. states by popularity among voters nationwide. And while Hawaii placing No. 1 in this little popularity contest wasn't a shock, that the Golden State ranked last was.
It seemed in the heady aftermath of Tuesday's ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a Supreme Court case on Proposition 8 was inevitable, but a few news reports have since pointed out that the Supreme Court might decline to hear the appeal on California's law banning gay marriage.
Today's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, is unconstitutional "all but ensures" (according to The New York Times) that the case will go the Supreme Court. But it does mean at least one thing: We can finally forgive California.
On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court's ruling on the voter-approved measure that outlawed same-sex marriage.
The state of California's clean air agency adopted the nation's first-ever state-level cap-and-trade program after a tense hearing Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown signs a law banning people under 18 from tanning beds, citing health risks
The feds want fewer marijuana shops and more small-scale growing and selling
Topeka can't to pay to prosecute those crimes; Newark has stopped buying toilet paper
At least 16 medical marijuana shops have received letters from U.S. Attorneys
The California senator sued her former treasurer, and her bank for a lack of oversight
Does the new voter registration campaign send the wrong message?
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The achievements of LBGT Americans will be mandatory in social studies
Reading the results from last night's primaries and special election
On Twitter, it wasn't just the heat that was disorienting on Tuesday
Oh, how the Internet loves a good gaffe!
If signed into law, it would require teaching about gay historical figures in state schools
A new study concludes the death penalty has cost the state a total of $4 billion
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