An Orange County man who prosecutors say led a drug-trafficking ring that exported hundreds of pounds of meth to Australia and Papua New Guinea has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Witnesses observed a man forcibly taking the victim’s silver SUV, jumping into the driver’s seat and speeding away on the four-lane corridor with “the vehicle owner partially inside the rear

It was what politicians call a “beauty contest,” in which candidates are given opportunities to briefly strut their stuff without any deep oratory.

On the eve of his budget presentation, Gov. Gavin Newsom sought to blame President Trump's tariff policy for reducing California state revenues.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters.

Genasys Inc., which oversees the alerts, said safeguards have been put in place in order to prevent the error from occurring in the future.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed two lawsuits on Tuesday challenging a Trump administration policy that would deny the state billions of dollars in transportation grants unless it follows the administration's lead on immigration enforcement.

The state is confronting what officials say is an unprecedented confluence of forces that will test its long record of enduring catastrophes, natural and otherwise.

California's new diversity rules on film sets will take effect on July 1, but productions won't be allowed to aim for numeric targets.

Randy Kraft, who was convicted of murdering 16 young men in Orange County in 1989, became known as the “Scorecard Killer."