More than 62,000 other Fantasy 5 tickets sold in California also won prizes ranging from free plays to $500, the lottery said.

While California remains a major force in Democratic politics nationally, it's also a major target for criticism by President Trump and Republicans.

A San Francisco woman gave birth inside a self-driving Waymo taxi while heading to the University of California, San Francisco medical center, the company said.

His Way Spirit Led Assemblies” cult leader Darryl Martin and high-ranking member Rudy Moreno were arrested at the group’s headquarters and being held without bail.

Multiple law enforcement agencies have been investigating the group in connection with the death of a child and disappearance of a member and a former member.

The NWS notes that tule fog, a special kind of radiation fog, occurs each winter in the Central Valley of California. The Weather Network, a Canadian weather information service, says tule fog is simply radiation fog with a special name. Either way, it's radiation fog that settles in the Central Valley during the year's cooler months.

California sued the Trump administration late on Friday for withholding more than $33 million in federal funding after the U.S. Transportation Department said the state failed to comply with rules requiring English proficiency for truck drivers.

One candidate suggested he'd have the California attorney general sue the state to overturn the law that lets transgender student athletes choose their school sports teams based on gender identity.

California's unemployment department bought more cellphones than it needed during the COVID pandemic and kept paying for thousands of unused lines.

Swift is a longtime advocate for foster youth and domestic violence victims and said she wants to represent her community in Sacramento.

JBS will permanently close a facility outside Los Angeles that prepares beef for sale at U.S. grocery stores, the world's largest meat company said on Friday, as tight cattle supplies have raised costs for meatpackers.

A swarm of at least six earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 2.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in the Saturday, Dec. 13, swarm ranged from magnitude 1.3 to 2.3, according to the USGS.