California

There is a strong likelihood that Michael Avenatti will testify at a New York trial where the once high-flying California lawyer is accused of swindling porn star Stormy Daniels out of a book deal’s proceeds, his lawyers say.

A California woman has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection with an alleged assault against a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, according to a report.

Leading California cannabis companies warned Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday that the state’s legal industry was on the verge of collapse and needed immediate tax cuts and a rapid expansion of retail outlets to steady the shaky marketplace.

California's regulators approved a settlement Thursday placing more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties on the utility Southern California Edison for its role in five wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

Port of Long Beach executive director Mario Cordero predicted that by the middle of next year there will be “some sense of normalcy” at U.S. ports, stressing that the progress will be contingent on COVID-19 and its impact on the labor force.

A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law, adding to uncertainty about whether bacon and other fresh pork products will be much more expensive or in short supply in the state when the new rules take effect on New Year's Day.

Add celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to the list of people and businesses trading California for Texas.

The former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — the nation’s largest public utility — has agreed to plead guilty to taking bribes in a corruption scandal that grew out of an automated billing disaster that stuck ratepayers with exorbitant bills, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California's governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws.

Tesla officially moves its headquarters from California’s Silicon Valley to Texas.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody says a new state plan to combat crime will catch repeat offenders and make the state feel more "secure."

A judge will begin hearing evidence for the Judicial Watch's lawsuit against then-California Gov. Jerry Brown's law requiring women on boards of publicly traded companies.

One California vice mayor is taking matters into her own hands and is working part time at a restaurant to help out with the labor shortage.

Three suspects out of an estimated mob of 90 people who allegedly took part in looting a Walnut Creek, California, Nordstrom have been nabbed, police say

A Nordstrom department store in Los Angeles on Monday night became the latest retail location to be hit by a flash-mob style "smash and grab" looting attack, according to reports.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named his senior adviser on energy policy as the next president of the powerful state body that regulates utilities.

Over 11 weeks of testimony, prosecutors in Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes' trial presented a narrative of a CEO who repeatedly fabricated the successes of her technology as she built a blood-testing startup that ultimately failed. They now have to hope they convinced jurors her behavior rose to the level of criminal fraud.

The California Highway Patrol and FBI were working together to identify the numerous drivers seen grabbing large amounts of cash that rained down on I-5 in Carlsbad on Friday morning after the money fell out of an armored truck.

The U.S. Coast Guard has named a second “party in interest” to the owner and operator of a cargo ship that was involved in an anchor dragging incident related to an October oil spill off the Southern California coastline.

A Southern California man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed business that exchanged at least $13 million in Bitcoin and cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.