It was what politicians call a “beauty contest,” in which candidates are given opportunities to briefly strut their stuff without any deep oratory.

Gov. Gavin Newsom will seek to regulate pharmaceutical middlemen that he blames for driving up prescription drug costs in California, eight months after vetoing a similar bill.

The state is releasing a model ordinance that cities can use as a basis for their own local anti-encampment ordinances.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California’s local governments to begin clearing homeless encampments, escalating the state’s efforts to ban makeshift camps that line streets up and down the state.