Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country.

The towing company in the popular viral clip is Oxnard towing service Airport Towing. When contacted by Newsweek by phone, the company confirmed the white SUV was an ICE vehicle that had been parked illegally on Thursday, July 10. However, viral reports that the tow truck driver was "following" ICE are inaccurate.

Jasmeet Bains, who represents Kern County in the California Assembly, becomes the latest Democrat and likely frontrunner in the race against Rep. David Valadao.

A California professor has been arrested for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister at ICE agents during a massive raid at cannabis farm last week where agitators also hurled rocks at law enforcement vehicles.

California's workers' compensation insurance rates are among the highest in the country. Regulators want them to be even higher.

Clean energy companies are asking California leaders for help getting their projects going before changes to federal subsidies in President Donald Trump's sweeping new tax and spending law make them more expensive and difficult to build.

A new report from the Brookings Institution think tank examines AI adoption, talent and innovation in 387 metropolitan areas.

Gov. Jerry Brown offered this defense of his signing a statewide $15 minimum wage into law: “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense. But morally, socially, and