A major audit found that California cops shared data on the movements of millions of drivers without having policies in place, disregarding state law.

Los Angeles County prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 66,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized the drug. The county is working with the Code for America nonprofit tech organization, which uses computer algorithms to find eligible cases that are otherwise hard to identify in decades-old court documents. The group has offered its Clear My Record technology free to all 58 state district attorneys.

Wolf known as OR-54 left home in Oregon in search of a mate, and scientists tracked her progress – until she died last week

Six-man football was developed for small-town schools. But with football participation falling nationwide, the sport could be on its way to California.

More than a dozen Los Angeles police officers with the elite Metro Division are being investigated on suspicion of falsifying information they gathered during stops and wrongly portraying people as gang members or associates, according to multiple sources.

Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday informed its California customers that it wou...

Since 2012, the city’s law enforcement agencies have compiled over 65,000 face scans and tried to match them against a massive mugshot database. But it’s almost completely unclear how effective the initiative was, with one spokesperson saying they’re unaware of a single arrest or prosecution that stemmed from the program.

The California Republican is facing federal corruption charges he looted campaign cash to finance vacations, golf outings and other personal expenses.

A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days. The trip was smooth like butter, 40,000 pounds of it.

Fat innkeeper worms typically burrow under the sand but recent storms have swept away layers, leaving them exposed.

It never occurred to me to buy a home air purifier until our veterinarian recommended it a little over a year ago. Our new kitten had just been diagnosed with asthma and prescribed an inhaler, which was curious to me because I'd just been prescribed one too for the first time in my life.

California gives a green light to companies testing driverless delivery vehicles.

Uber may be on the brink of another clash with California lawmakers. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday said that he was considering instituting a requirement that would force ride-share services to use electric vehicles.

Last year, California passed a landmark privacy law that gives consumers more control over their data. The legislation gives residents unprecedented rights to control what information companies collect on them and how it is used. The California Consumer Privacy Act will go into action 1 January 2020, giving residents of the state a whole new arsenal of tools to protect their data and personal information online – and saddling businesses with a lot more responsibility.

A ground-breaking project in California could see 250,000 people freed from their criminal record this year.

Electric cars and solar panels are the most visible signs of California's ambitious climate change policies. But now the state is setting its sights on a lower-tech way to cut carbon emissions: soil. It's spending millions of dollars to help farmers grow plants, which absorb carbon and help move it into the soil where it can be stored long-term. This makes California home to some of the first official "carbon farmers" in the country.

The circular building housing Apple’s headquarters in Silicon Valley is so big, it’s nearly a mile in circumference. So it’s hard to fathom that it is not actually attached to the ground. The spaceship, as the building is often called, is a mammoth example of a technology that reduces earthquake shaking by as much as five times.

California should embrace the idea of building more solar panels than it can consistently use rather than treating oversupply as a problem, research suggests.

A homeowner trying to plug a nest of angry wasps with a hammer and stake created the spark that started the biggest fire in state history, Cal Fire says.

As the mountain lions of Southern California approach what some experts call an “extinction vortex,” environmentalists are demanding protective status.