The Latest Breaking News from Calif

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It’s 1 p.m. on a recent Thursday in San Jose, and Steaphen Fick is intently watching two grown men swing unsharpened steel swords at each other.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County officials have for six months housed foster children in cells in a former juvenile detention facility, in violation of state law.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California bill that would require school employees to out transgender students to their parents will not get a committee hearing, meaning the legislation is effectively dead.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that California will stockpile an emergency supply of 2 million abortion pills known as misoprostol in response to a federal judge in Texas ruling against the authorization of another medication that has been used to terminate pregnancies for decades.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Before it became home to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the desert city of Indio was known for its date groves.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On recent a brisk March morning in Woodland’s rolling hills, Raul “Reppo” Chavez was already covered in sweat.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Newly obtained documents in the killing of Sophia Mason show that Hayward police — after getting a missing person’s report about the 8-year-old in March 2022 — swiftly determined what Alameda County social workers had failed to see for more than a year: The girl was…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Nia MooreWeathers first heard about California’s sweeping plan to shutter its youth prisons and transform the state’s juvenile justice system, she was filled with hope.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Avalanche have prided themselves on a season of historic poise away from home. When they needed it most, they resurrected their division title dreams.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A traffic collision — which investigators say was triggered by a 13-year-old driver — left one person dead and about a dozen more injured, according to the Woodland Police Department.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The sign was written by hand, with love, not on an enormous poster but on a sheet torn from a notebook. "We're here on our honeymoon!"