The new law could add as many as a million voters to the rolls by 2018.
If the proposed ballot measure were to pass, it would require ammunition dealers to be licensed like gun dealers.
The state's new law for phasing out the use of antibiotics in livestock goes beyond federal regulations -- and could have a ripple effect in other states.
California Gov. Jerry Brown's move will affect four high schools in the nation's largest state.
Opponents say the law will just make schools more vulnerable to attack.
California's passage of the law “has made us even more motivated to make sure Marylanders have the same options.”
Jerry Brown, governor of the nation's most populous state, signed a law Saturday that automatically registers to vote anyone who visits the DMV.
With the governor's signing of a set of bills, the state's medical marijuana industry will become regulated.
A bill signed into law Wednesday will help the state lead a worldwide effort and improve the health of Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown said.
The Fair Pay Act broadens the state's existing equal pay law and provides more tools to women employees to challenge gender-wage disparities.
"If I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain ... it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill.”
"I think we should pause and reflect how our system of criminal justice could be made more human, more just and more cost-effective."
The blaze had spread to 1,200 acres since beginning Saturday, and residents of Jamesburg were advised to evacuate.
Two separate blazes in California raging for more than a week have killed five people and destroyed hundreds of other man-made structures.
In Northern California and across the U.S., global warming and risky development are boosting the threat of raging wildfires.
The wildfire prompted thousands to flee their homes as firefighters were unable to contain the blaze over the weekend.
Two decades after medical marijuana was legalized in the Golden State, its lawmakers finally voted to regulate it, but some dispensaries are wary.
Firefighters have been stymied by dry heat and fast winds, and four have suffered serious burns.
The so-called Butte Fire has destroyed 15 homes in rural Amador and Calaveras counties, and it threatens another 6,000 residences in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown will either sign the bill into law, thus legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, or veto it.
A new measure gives California prosecutors more power in dealing with revenge porn cases.
The measure met staunch resistance from state Republicans and the oil industry, who also shot down a compromise that would target greenhouse gases instead.