Obama has told friends Trump's Texas gerrymander compelled him to use his star power to promote Prop 50 in California and help Democrats

Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa made a last-ditch plea to conservative voters to turn in their ballots and reject a plan to redraw the US House map favoring Democrats.

Judge J. Michael Seabright found that Trump appointee Bilal Essayli unlawfully assumed the post after resigning in July as interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.

Cal's head football coach, Justin Wilcox, earned the title of highest paid state employee last year, earning $4.7 million.

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

California faculty union sues CSU system to block release of personal contact info to federal investigators in Trump antisemitism probe, citing privacy concerns.

A federal prosecutor appointed by the Trump administration without Senate approval to serve as the "acting U.S. attorney" for California's central district was named to that role unlawfully, a U.S. district judge ruled.

Jurors have convicted a California animal rights activist for taking four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant.

Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to Tule River Indian tribe.