California has reached an all-time high of 18.2 million registered voters, while the number of registered Republicans has fallen below 30 percent, signaling a worrisome decline for the state's minority party, officials said Friday.

Proposition 31 would shift some budget decision authority from the Legislature to the governor and other powers from the state to local governments.

Supporters and opponents are lining up on Proposition 30, a initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown to bring in funds for education and safety services.

The Trinidad-born trailblazer who rose to become California's highest-ranking black politician died Sunday at age 86 in Los Angeles after a period of declining health, his wife said.

Local public servant, political strategist and community activist Al Wagner has died. He was found dead in his home Monday. The cause of death has not been released.

With the stroke of a pen Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown changed the lives of undocumented youth by opening the door to get a driver's license.

Online retailer Amazon.com has tried to become all things to all consumers, but in California, it is about to take on a role it has fought against for years: tax collector.

Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis has found, and not even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough...

More than two years after it was signed into law, the most contentious part of Arizona's landmark immigration legislation is expected to finally go into effect following a federal court ruling issue late Wednesday.

The bill passed Friday makes substantial reforms to the century-old system that provides medical care and compensation to workers who injure themselves or fall ill on the job.

California would use $20 million found hidden in a state Department of Parks and Recreation special fund to keep all parks open under a bill approved Thursday by the state Senate.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced systematic reforms to California's badly underfunded public pension system that he says will save taxpayers billions of dollars over time, but he also was unable to persuade his fellow Democrats to give him some...

AB1081, known as the Trust Act, would allow California to opt out of some parts of the federal Secure Communities program. That program requires local law enforcement officers to check the fingerprints of people they arrest against a federal immigration database.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state Assembly has sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that ends discounted vanity license plates for current and retired lawmakers.