Gavin Newsom

Governor Gavin Newsom, D-California, selected Laphonza Butler to complete the Senate term of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, which runs through 2024. Here’s what you need to know.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Calfornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law today that will pay many of the state’s fast food workers a minimum wage of $20 an hour.

The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels blamed for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday that he would be willing to debate Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom live on air.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday addressed gun violence in California following the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. Watch the full remarks here.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California governor Gavin Newsom, took the stand at the Los Angeles trial of Harvey Weinstein and in tearful and dramatic testimony described the movie mogul raping her in 2005.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after winning reelection and promised to continue to lead with a progressive agenda.

Gavin Newsom was re-elected Tuesday by beating little-known Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle.

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, is asking a judge to free him from prison by reversing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s denial of his parole earlier this year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 351 into law Sunday, making human composting legal in California.

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 — in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history” — is being released by the state’s parole board.

Californians affected by gun violence will soon be able to sue firearm manufacturers and sellers for the harm done by those weapons, after Gov. Newsom signed AB 1594 into law.

California is spending $11 million on education programs promoting wider use of “red flag” laws that are designed to temporarily take guns away from people who are deemed at risk of harming themselves or others, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday he will be signing at least 12 new gun law bills when they arrive on his desk.

Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear organizations expressed opposition Tuesday to any attempt to extend the life of California’s last operating nuclear power plant, challenging suggestions that its electricity is needed to meet potential future shortages in the nation’s most populous state.