Hannah-Beth Jackson

Dems cheer and fume, California cars block climate change goals, Giants owner wasn't the only Hyde-Smith donor, and incoming lawsuits on boardroom diversity.

Opponents of SB 826, a new California law mandating gender diversity in corporate boardrooms, warn that it will be challenged in court. Defenders of the law say it will bring California corporations into the 21st century.

Wildfire helpers, Paradise Thanksgiving, Camp Fire forensics, a record election for women, California family leave law, Brown's clemency, the Tigar family.

The California Chamber of Commerce called the state's small business family leave protections a 'job killer.' Here's how Hannah-Beth Jackson's Senate Bill 63 is really working out.

The Cadiz water project, Steve Ballmer's Inglewood arena, ZEVs, clean water and cannabis are on tap for California lawmakers. Also: climate change sticker shock, net neutrality, #metoo, In-N-Out, Labor Day and more.

Legislation that would alter liability law for California utilities whose equipment sparks wildfires faces a show-down today before a special two-house legislative conference committee.

California is moving toward becoming the first state to fine companies that fail to have women on their boards of directors.

California’s oil and gas regulator has endured years of scolding from the Legislature for a lack of accountability, from environmentalists for allowing an industry to run roughshod over a state regulator, and from the federal Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce clean water laws. But the state’s oil watchdog is undertaking a comprehensive reform, officials say, that will radically change the agency’s culture and modernize a department with one foot in the last century.

California lawmakers are considering an unprecedented request to spend more than $100 million in taxpayer money to dismantle two offshore oil-drilling facilities—a platform connected to the ruptured pipeline and a man-made island in nearby Ventura County—because the oil companies that were leasing the sites went bankrupt last year.