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California Governor Gavin Newsom presented a $286.4 billion budget proposal, dubbed the “California Blueprint,” for the state on Monday.

The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that killed 34 people on a scuba diving boat off the California coast more than two years ago

Pacific banana slugs are the second-largest type of land-dwelling slug, growing up to almost 10 inches in length. Greg Bledsoe got a close-up look at these bright-yellow creatures during his Family Geography Project in Northern California’s Mendocino Woodlands.

An attorney for a Marine Corps officer says his client takes responsibility for the 2020 sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle off the Southern California coast that killed nine service members, but he doesn’t deserve to be discharged

The former Theranos CEO was convicted of four counts of fraud and conspiracy on Monday.

California twins Aylin and Alfredo Trujillo were born just 15 minutes apart, but their birthdays fall in different years.

A Connecticut teen’s tragic passing in 2019 is helping others live on because she was an organ donor. And now, her memory is being celebrated in a big way at this year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California.

The man said he would “do whatever it takes” to kill government leaders on his “hit list,” including President Joe Biden and his chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci

John McVoy Jr., opened fire during an argument with the victim’s husband during a garage band practice. One of the shots hit Susan Garcia as she held her 2-year-old son

Twenty-six U.S. states will raise their minimum wage in 2022. Activists have pushed for $15 an hour, but some are setting their sights on an $18-per-hour rate.

The cause of the crash is unclear and is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board

California’s governor must soon decide whether to free one of America’s most notorious assassins

It’s been a long 2021 and it’s drawing to a close. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest local stories around Southern California from this past year.

Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, heavy snow to mountains in Northern California and Nevada, and unseasonable warmth to Texas and the Southeast

The dean of California painters, Thiebaud drew upon his earlier career as a Disney animator, sign painter and commercial artist

A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key highways amid blowing snow in mountains of Northern California and Nevada, with forecasters warning that travel in the Sierra Nevada could be difficult for several days.

California prosecutors say retail giant Walmart illegally dumps more 1 million batteries, aerosol cans of insect killer and other products, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex paints and other hazardous waste into California landfills each year

The proposed policy would reduce payments granted to solar customers for the excess power they generate — a policy known as net-energy metering.

The mask mandate goes into effect Wednesday and will remain in place until Jan. 15.

A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law