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California governor signs $156.3 billion budget with rainy day fund

May 23, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed a $156.3 billion budget plan on Friday that includes funding for a controversial high-speed rail project and a...

California lawmakers consider expanding teacher tenure

May 23, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - A union-backed bill in the California legislature to expand tenure protections for public school teachers to other employees stalled on Wednesday amid concern...

California Democrats scale back universal preschool plan, citing cost

August 25, 2021 at 5:12 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Democrats on Thursday dramatically scaled back their proposal for universal pre-kindergarten under opposition from Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat who has charted a moderate fiscal...

Feds to spend $2 billion on Los Angeles ‘Subway to the Sea’

August 25, 2021 at 5:10 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The federal government will spend $2 billion to extend a subway line under Los Angeles' storied Wilshire Boulevard, an effort to ease congestion in one of...

NSA data-gathering may run into California roadblock

August 25, 2021 at 5:06 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants the cooperation of California officials in searching residents' cellphone and computer records, under...

California governor pushes paying down debt over safety net in budget

August 25, 2021 at 4:56 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown struck a fiscally cautious note in his mid-year revision of the state's budget on Tuesday, emphasizing paying down debt over the social...

California governor pushes paying down debt over safety net in budget

May 23, 2019 at 9:37 p.m.

Little help for a million Californians on wells in historic drought

August 25, 2021 at 4:47 a.m.

FORT BRAGG, California (Reuters) - Michael Holmes got by at his rural home near California's rugged northern coast on a disability pension and water from a decades-old well -- until...

California lawmakers weigh revoking salaries of suspended senators

August 25, 2021 at 4:42 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California state senators, embarrassed by not being able to more harshly punish state legislators facing criminal charges, moved forward on Tuesday on a measure that would...

Sentencing delayed for convicted California state senator

August 25, 2021 at 4:42 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Sentencing has been postponed for a state senator whose conviction on eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud is one of three ethics scandals involving...

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