Parents demanded policy changes at a Riverside school board meeting following controversial volleyball forfeit involving transgender athlete in girls' sports.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment. In the national struggle over U.S. House control, perhaps no politician has more at stake than the California governor, who has emerged as the leading Democratic adversary to President Donald Trump in what many see as a lightly masked trial run for his own future White House bid.

Health officials in the Sierra Nevada region of California announced this week that a local resident tested positive for plague, an extremely rare bacterial infection usually transmitted through flea bites.

California's state fire marshal has officially revoked a number of pyrotechnic licenses as the investigation into the deadly fireworks facility explosion in Esparto continues. The July 1 incident at the Devastating Pyrotechnics facility in Yolo County killed seven people.

The closure of one of the most notorious stretches of California highway, delayed earlier this month because of the Gifford Fire, is now slated to take place next week before Labor Day weekend.

California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is slated to be operating in the Central Valley by 2032, according to a report released Friday by the High Speed Rail Authority.

"We're here to call upon city, county and state officials, asking them to investigate this shooting because there is a lot that we don't know," attorney Jason Sanchez said at the news conference.