Indigenous tribes without federal recognition fiercely opposed a bill that would treat tribes with and without federal ...

California Republicans are accusing Democrats of gaslighting Californians with an ad campaign related to a fight over a child ...

As California begins requiring homeowners to take steps to protect their properties from wildfires, a new state bill aims to ...

California Democrats announced a deal Monday on a turbulent bill that would make soliciting an older teen a felony for people ...

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Efforts to make it an automatic felony to buy a 16- or 17-year-old for sex in California were rejected by an Assembly ...

The backpedaling by Democratic leaders comes as the party overall faced mounting pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom, other ...

California Assembly Bill 379 addresses penalties for solicitation of a minor, a different crime than sex trafficking. Under current law, a person who solicits anyone under age 16 for sex can be ...

A California lawmaker is proposing that the state give sober-living centers a cut of housing funding. That would roll back ...

Based on the howls from Gov. Gavin Newsom and social media hyperventilating from Republican leaders, it would seem Democrats in the California Assembly had just abandoned young victims of sex ...

The “protected uses” portion of the Davis-Stirling Act already has become a home for odd protections that generally are ...

In a familiar fight, Republicans have pushed their opponents into defensive mode on crime issues, publicly embarrassing ...