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California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour – the highest in the nation – as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again seized on wage disparity and the plight of the working poor in their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The water content of California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source on roughly a third of the state’s annual potable water supply — measured 87 percent of average on Wednesday.

Both Democratic and Republican members of the California State Assembly Transportation Committee discussed the financial risks and the estimated $64 billion dollar price tag for Gov. Jerry Brown’s legacy-defining high-speed rail system in nearly three hours of discussions in Sacramento on Monday, focusing on concerns as to where the funding for the massive project will be found.

On Tuesday, California Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Plumas Lake) is introducing legislation to help protect domestic violence victims by carving out an exception for them to carry a gun for self-defense on college campuses.

With 42 percent of U.S. workers making less than $15 an hour, the union-led “living wage initiative” that just qualified for the California ballot in November is generating opposition from business — and Governor Jerry Brown.

Gun-controlled San Francisco far and away leads the nation in the list of cities with surging rates of property crime.

A Central Valley farmer with whom President Obama met and posed for photo-ops in 2014 is slamming the White House’s new water plan, saying he was misled about Obama’s intention to listen to farmers’ demands for water.

California Gov. Jerry Brown joked on Monday that if Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump wins the 2016 election, the state would have to erect a wall — not on its border with Mexico, but its borders with other states.

Operators began releasing water from Folsom Dam for the first time in four years after El Niño-fueled storms dropped billions of gallons of water into California’s largest reservoirs over the weekend.

Despite California Gov. Jerry Brown’s full-court-press to cast himself as the ultimate climate change warrior, the Porter Ranch gas leak has trashed his relevance to the movement and made the governor an environmental “lame duck.”

On Monday, California legislators approved legislation that will levy a new tax on all managed care organizations so over one billion dollars of federal funds will continue to be granted to Medi-Cal, including millions of dollars for services for the developmentally disabled.

Here are eight reasons why GOP legislators should vote against Jerry Brown’s “MCO tax” increase.

Jerry Brown tried to introduce the concept of implementing a “revenue-neutral carbon tax.”

Proponents of a ballot measure that would prioritize water storage projects over the construction of a high-speed train have begun collecting the signatures necessary to place the measure on California’s 2016 ballot.

Governor Jerry Brown has continued to demand that a new managed healthcare organization (MCO) tax be imposed by the state legislature.

On Sunday, California governor Jerry Brown slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that the Senate should wait until after the presidential election to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

The California desert city of Adelanto will soon be home to more than two dozen medical marijuana cultivation companies, in a move the city hopes will bring it back from the brink of financial ruin.

Gov. Jerry Brown has decided to avoid another legislative fight over his desire to cut petroleum use 50 percent by 2030, instead choosing to attain his goal by inserting a provision into the state budget.

President Barack Obama arrives in California on Wednesday for a week-long trip filled with a host of Democratic fundraisers, including one at the home of Hillary Clinton donor Steve Westly, who spent more than $35 million on an unsuccessful 2006 run for governor.

The family of a 79-year old Porter Ranch resident filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against the Southern California Gas Company on Feb. 2 for contributing to her death. About 100,000 metric tons of methane gas has leaked into the atmosphere from the company’s facilities since October.

California water officials extended the state’s mandatory conservation rules for an additional nine months on Tuesday, as residents fell behind in meeting water savings targets for a third consecutive month.

California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is buying Facebook ads to promote his campaign for governor–nearly three years before the 2018 general election.

Facing a barrage of criticism from business, and labor skepticism over threats of higher unemployment, Oregon Governor Kate Brown is scaling back her $15.52 minimum wage proposal.

Prospects for Brown’s proposal seem dim, as GOP legislators and even some Democrats are balking at raising taxes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The California legislature scrambled this week to correct a serious error that had been written into the state’s new medical marijuana regulations.

On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a ballot initiative for November that would allow prison inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses to accumulate credits that would enable them to be eligible for early release.

Governor Jerry Brown joked during his State of the State address Thursday that he could stick around past his term limits by funding a ballot initiative to legalize a fifth term in office.

California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his annual “State of the State” address to the legislature on Thursday, against the backdrop of a volatile stock market that could threaten the state budget surplus he achieved, and cause future fiscal uncertainty. Brown told legislators, “…you are not going to hear me talk today about new programs. Rather, I am going to focus on how we pay for the commitments we have already made.”

California Governor Jerry Brown is in a strong position to pursue his agenda for the next three years, with the latest Field Poll showing registered voters giving him a 56 percent approval rating, and $24 million left in his campaign account.

California Governor Jerry Brown reiterated Tuesday that despite Hillary Clinton’s collapse in the polls, and the new revelations in her ongoing e-mail scandal, he has no intention of entering the 2016 presidential campaign.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case from California that could weaken teachers’ unions political clout nationwide, leaving them far less capable of supporting their Democratic Party clients.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s second inauguration Friday was met with shouts and boos from protesters criticizing Lee for the creeping gentrification in his city and calling for Police Chief Greg Suhr to step down over growing tensions between the police department and the black community.

Governor Jerry Brown shocked Sacramento on January 8 when he announced his opposition to two November union-backed ballot initiatives that would sell a $9 billion school construction bond and extend Proposition 30 tax surcharges on the wealthy.

On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a tax in his new budget that would tax all health plans, replacing California’s current tax that only taxes health plans that participate in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid plan.

California Governor Jerry Brown will join county employees and invited guests in San Bernardino County on Monday for a private memorial service honoring the victims of the December 2 Islamic terror attacks.

For years, California Gov. Jerry Brown has advocated for a pair of pricey tunnels that would divert water from the Sacramento River south to boost state supplies–and 2016 is shaping up to be the year of reckoning for the project.