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SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom embraced a directive Thursday from President Biden to make the coronavirus vaccine available to all adults by May 1, but seven weeks out from the deadline and amid continuing supply challenges, it's unclear what the change could mean for Californians seeking to get their shots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California will shield struggling tenants from eviction for at least three more months, as the state acted Monday to renew protections that were set to expire this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California lawmakers voted Monday to speed up the recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom, part of a broader state budget plan they adopted after weeks of wrangling with the governor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Facing a looming deadline, legislative budget officials said late Friday they had reached a framework for the state budget with Gov. Gavin Newsom, hashing out agreements on homelessness funding, health coverage for undocumented seniors and other lingering policy differences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California will shield struggling tenants from eviction for at least three more months and attempt to pay off all of the rent lower-income residents missed during the coronavirus pandemic under a deal announced Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with just days to go before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Only 43 voters who signed the petition to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom withdrew their names over the past few months, far fewer than opponents of the election would have needed to prevent it from taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with less than a week before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California legislators approved a placeholder state budget Monday to meet a constitutional deadline, but negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom over how to spend a windfall of tax revenue continue with two weeks until the start of the new fiscal year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Democratic leaders plan to include more than $200 million in the upcoming state budget for local costs related to the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move to speed up the process that the governor's supporters believe could help him beat back the attempt to remove him from office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - The legislative push to establish a system in California for stripping badges from bad cops has become a battle over how much authority law enforcement should be given to regulate itself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - After a contentious plan to compel denser residential construction around public transit and in wealthy suburbs failed last year, a group of California lawmakers convened to figure out a unified path forward on addressing the state's housing shortage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Valley Transportation Authority employee suspected of fatally shooting nine coworkers Wednesday morning before turning the gun on himself had been accused by an ex-girlfriend of raping and abusing her, often during violent "mood swings," court records show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - An uncomfortable spotlight shone on lobbyist Jason Kinney last year after he hosted an infamous birthday dinner at Napa Valley's French Laundry restaurant attended by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The event violated California's social distancing rules at the time and unleashed a political storm for Newsom. But the notoriety may have boosted Kinney's fortunes in an industry where personal connections are the primary currency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, reported making $1.7 million in 2019, his first year in the governor's office, earning income from his restaurants and wine businesses, from turning their Marin County home into a rental and from an advance for a children's book the governor is writing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police agencies' use of a California law allowing them to temporarily seize firearms from people they consider dangerous has tripled over the past two years, as supporters, including President Biden, push more states to use the strategy to counter gun violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a $267.8 billion revised budget plan Friday in which he promised "generational and transformational" spending to narrow California's deep inequities, including funds for health care for undocumented immigrants and expanded broadband internet access. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State finance officials project that California will have a $38 billion discretionary surplus in the upcoming fiscal year, a massive influx of cash that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature have a month to decide how to spend. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California's population shrank slightly last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, the first time the state has measured an annual decline in more than a century of tracking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - More than two years after losing to Gov. Gavin Newsom in historic fashion, Republican John Cox bet Tuesday that a four-legged furry giant is his key to a fairy-tale comeback. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California will extend more than $6 billion in tax breaks to small businesses that received federal aid to weather the economic downturn during the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Critics of Gov. Gavin Newsom have collected enough signatures to force a recall election, kicking off a lengthy procedural march to a likely referendum later this year on the first-term governor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Rob Bonta, a progressive state legislator from Alameda, was confirmed Thursday as California's next attorney general, amid calls from his colleagues to lead the state in a new direction on criminal, racial and environmental justice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Supporters have shelved a bill that would have prevented rental units in California from being removed from the market after they are sold to a new property owner, a phenomenon that tenant rights advocates say puts many low-income renters at risk. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Windsor residents hoping to recall Mayor Dominic Foppoli over allegations of sexual assault face a potential yearlong battle to remove him from office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - A six-month sprint to convert hotels, motels and other vacant buildings into homeless housing has created shelter for more than 8,000 people at a fraction of the cost of new construction, state officials said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A California governor takes the stage of a Los Angeles ballroom to denounce the recall election he faces. As supporters cheer him on, he warns that the drive to remove him from office is part of a national effort by Republicans to steal elections they cannot win. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - A six-month sprint to convert hotels, motels and other vacant buildings into homeless housing has created shelter for more than 8,000 people at a fraction of the cost of new construction, state officials said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - The list of California gun owners banned from possessing their weapons grew last year to a record size, as the backlog of cases in a state program to seize the firearms surged by 17% during the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The same apartment complex on Alabama Street in San Francisco's Mission District has been home to four generations of Deborah Carlos' family. It's where she was raised, where she left in the early '90s to protect her son from gang violence, where she moved back a decade later to care for her mother and where her grandchildren were born. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gov. Gavin Newsom received his coronavirus vaccine Thursday to promote the expansion of eligibility to all Californians 50 and older. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Rob Bonta, a progressive state Assembly member from the East Bay, to be California's next attorney general Wednesday, handing the role of the state's top law enforcement official to a leading voice for overhauling the criminal justice system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California has paused its plan to provide additional tax relief to small businesses slammed by the coronavirus pandemic because of a last-minute provision in the newly passed federal stimulus package. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California has paused its plan to provide additional tax relief to small businesses slammed by the coronavirus pandemic because of a last-minute provision in the newly passed federal stimulus package. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - The campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is close to qualifying, with nearly 1.2 million valid signatures counted as of early March. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Xavier Becerra was confirmed by the Senate as President Biden's health and human services secretary Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Gavin Newsom to nominate a replacement as California's attorney general. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom will now prohibit all his outside consultants from lobbying his administration regardless of whether they are paid, including Jason Kinney, the lobbyist and longtime Newsom adviser whose 50th birthday dinner at the French Laundry in November sparked intense scrutiny of their relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Critics of Gov. Gavin Newsom seeking to remove him from office turned in the last of more than 2.1 million signatures Wednesday, ending a nine-month petition drive that likely will force a recall election later this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein "absolutely" intends to serve out her term, she said Tuesday, dismissing questions about Gov. Gavin Newsom's pledge to name a Black woman to her seat if she retires early. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom would appoint a Black woman to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein if she does not finish her term, he said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom is shifting into campaign mode to save his job, but it will be months before voters find out if and when they will have an opportunity to weigh in on a potential recall - the result of changes adopted several years ago by California Democrats trying to protect one of their own. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Bay Area legislators are ramping up pressure on the Newsom administration over a state program to vaccinate the poorest Californians that largely bypasses the region, after two private meetings this week failed to yield changes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - As prominent Democrats call for the party to rally behind Gov. Gavin Newsom amid his mounting recall threat, the White House declined Wednesday to detail what it might do to support him further. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For months, as opponents gathered signatures from voters ready to remove him from office, Gov. Gavin Newsom publicly ignored the recall drive that could imperil his political future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]