Democrats argue the move is crucial to protect immigrant families from mass deportations, while Republicans criticize it as premature and a distraction from urgent state issues like wildfires.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has scolded state coastal regulators for providing “legally erroneous guidance” in rebuilding Pacific Palisades, where nearly 6,700 structures burned in this month’s wildfires.

A man has been arrested after a woman in her late teens was allegedly "followed into an alleyway and raped". Police say ...