California will be the first state to require online companies to put kids' safety first by barring them from profiling children or using personal information in ways that could harm children physically or mentally, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

This technology has just proved its value in a crisis, and the more capacity we add, the more it will save us from high bills and blackouts.

When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family's income. The undertaking, made possible by an unexpected budget surplus, will be the largest free student lunch program in the country. School officials, lawmakers, anti-hunger organizations and parents are applauding it as a pioneering way to prevent the stigma of accepting free lunches and feed more hungry children.

Nearly 1,000 records have been set over the past week from California to North Dakota, many by large margins.

The companies hope to expand to the greater Bay Area.

In a move the restaurant industry warns could raise fast-food prices, California's governor signed into law a bill creating a "Fast Food Council" to determine standards for pay, hours, and working conditions for the state's fast food workers.

Employers in California may soon have to post salaries for job listings and publicly reveal pay scales by race, ethnicity and gender. The state Legislature passed a law Tuesday requiring all employers in the state to post salary ranges for open positions. It also would require companies with more than 100 employees to report pay scales by gender, race and ethnicity, data that California would then make public.

It is impossible to miss all the headlines talking about the water crisis happening (and worsening) in the American Southwest. So what can be done? One big step: banning water-sucking along trees.

California state lawmakers voted early Wednesday morning to keep the Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant running. After an overwhelming majority vote, The plant will keep running till 2030 instead of 2025.

These places are the best for unforgettable San Francisco wine tasting experiences including the best tasting lounges for you to visit and hidden gem wineries.

Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess

Victims who receive unsolicited sexually graphic material by text, email, app or other electronic means could sue the sender under a bill that lawmakers sent to Gov. Newsom.

Climate change has already doubled the likelihood of catastrophic flooding in the state, researchers found, and without a limit on greenhouse gas emissions, it'll only get worse.

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate pork producers' lawsuit against a voter-approved California law that set minimum standards for cages used to hold breeding pigs, egg-laying hens and veal calves. The companies have made a plausible case that the 2018 initiative, Proposition 12, interferes with interstate commerce and does not benefit either Californians or the animals they seek to protect, the Justice Department lawyers said in a filing Friday.

Starting this school year, instead of worrying about packing a lunch, students across California can get yummy options at no cost.

A California regulator has accused Tesla of misleading consumers about its driver assistance systems, and has filed complaints that could potentially prevent the automaker from selling its cars in the state, US media reported Friday. In its filing, the Department of Motor Vehicles said Tesla advertised its Autopilot and Self-Driving technologies as more capable than they actually are, according to the Los Angeles Times.

California will start producing insulin and selling it at a cheaper rate as Insulin is held prisoner by a health care system in the United States that is persistently resistant to improvements, allowing firms to dominate the market and maximize profits.

City lawmakers in San Francisco have introduced a resolution to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics, or “entheogens.” The measure would remove criminal penalties for possession of drugs like psilocybin or mescaline—both to reduce criminalization in itself, and to make it easier for people to use these drugs for therapeutic purposes. If successful, San Francisco would join a growing list of cities to adopt similar measures, including Denver, Oakland, Seattle, Detroit and Washington, DC.

A ferocious wildfire outside California's Yosemite Park is displaying "unprecedented" behavior, "moving extremely fast" and limiting the amount of time authorities have to warn area residents to evacuate, a state fire official said.

Despite the efforts of more than 2,000 firefighters to contain the blaze, the fire, which began in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, was 0 percent contained Sunday, fire officials conceded.