California will become the first U.S. state to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom first state budget plan totals $144 billion in general fund spending.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued 143 pardons and 131 commutations on Christmas Eve. Brown has a tradition of granting clemency requests on or near Christian holidays. 

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a new law requiring that Californians undergo at least eight hours of training, including live fire exercises, before carrying concealed weapons. 

California would set a goal of phasing out all fossil fuels from the state's electricity sector by 2045 under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

California will become the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.  

The budget boosts funding for higher education, staving off tuition increases, and increasing welfare grants that have been slow to return to their pre-recession levels. It creates more slots for subsidized child care and gives a raise to doctors and dentists who see low-income patients on Medi-Cal, which covers one in three Californians.

California voters will decide this November whether to get rid of higher gas taxes and vehicle registration fees approved last year.  

Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a $137.6 billion general fund budget for California as revenues continue to surge.