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S&P: California Comeback Due To Less Spending, Not Tax Gains
A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
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A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
Gov. Jerry Brown orchestrated the successful push for temporary sales and income taxes on Californians three years ago to help ease the state out of recession and close a multibillion-dollar budget gap.
After tackling pension changes for public employees and teachers, Gov. Jerry Brown is now setting his sights on another big debt: retiree health care benefits.
The state exchange is ramping up advertising and marketing efforts in the final month of open enrollment for health insurance to minimize the number of Californians who will face tax penalties for remaining uninsured.
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday released a record $113 billion state spending plan that asks the University of California to do more with less so the nation's largest public university system can avert tuition hikes.
California Gov. Jerry Brown plans to unveil a record $113 billion state spending plan on Friday that gives schools a boost and pays debt but sets up a higher-education showdown by rejecting the University of California's demand for more money to avert tuition hikes, a government official said.
Anticipating a surplus, Democratic state lawmakers are pressuring Gov. Jerry Brown to increasing spending to assist those who have been missing out on the economic recovery.
After winning re-election in a landslide, Gov. Jerry Brown will start his unprecedented fourth and final term with a flourish by promoting a legacy of fiscal stability while pioneering a bullet train to accommodate future generations of Californians seeking clean transportation.
The pardons issued Wednesday included a Stanislaus County man sentenced to three years' probation in 1986 for taking expensive wine out of a wine cellar and drinking it. Michael Joseph Moradian Jr. has since "lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character, and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen," Brown wrote in his pardon.
Brown said in a statement that the president "stepped up for hard-working families across America" in the face of Washington gridlock.
University of California regents have voted to raise tuition. The move means tuition rise as much as 5 percent each of the next five years.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is returning to Sacramento for a record fourth term.
Neel Kashkari, a first-time candidate for office, was hoping to spark a conversation with California voters this year about growing inequality in the state's rebounding economy, whether the state is economically competitive, and how to reform its underperforming K-12 school system.
Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to meet with the state's largest nurses union to discuss Ebola preparedness at hospitals and other health facilities.
Jerry Brown is on the verge of doing what no one has ever done in California and what no one may ever do again: get elected to a fourth term as governor.
The ad features a child fighting for his life that's eventually saved by Kashkari. The ad is supposed to be a metaphor for the state of education in California.
Ballots are in the mail for vote-by-mail voters, but it's not too late to register to vote in this year's election.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed and vetoed a series of bills on the final day of considering the legislation passed in the prior legislative session .
Brown vetoed a bill that would have banned elected officials from requesting payments on their behalf to nonprofit organizations run by family members. He also rejected a bill seeking to ban tickets and reduce the value of other gifts that can be given to legislators.
It's the first legislation in the country that requires people to verbally agree to a sexual encounter. It involves "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement" before students have sex. It's aimed at protecting students who are drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep and cannot grant consent.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that makes California the first in the nation to define when "yes means yes" and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law seven new bills intended to thwart human trafficking.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have given the University of California and California State University systems a $100 million financial boost.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he has signed into law a bill to help fund lawyers for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
On Feb. 5, 1976 Maryann Jacobs said goodbye to her three children before school, but never picked them up. A neighbor discovered the 37-year-old's body inside her home, brutally raped, tortured and killed.
A car crashed into a Modesto marijuana dispensary on Monday, leaving a big path of destruction and at least two people hurt.
Harris also wants to restore the pandemic's expanded Child Tax Credit. That could help millions of families, but cost $1.6 trillion.
A car was left with significant damage after it crashed into a pillar on the Old Sacramento boardwalk on Monday.
Burning Man tickets are still available leading up to the arts festival, which begins Aug. 25. It's hurting businesses that cater to revelers.
Drivers could continue to see higher car insurance rates in 2024, with the average U.S. rate projected to jump 22% this year.
CHP says the big rig's batteries were still burning more than four hours later.
Democrats from across the country are descending on Chicago for the convention, where the party will rally around Harris — and her new running mate — as the party's nominees.
A family trip took a tragic turn Sunday as the Placer County Sheriff's Office continues to search for a male in the American River.
There is a debate over banners posted on one Lodi resident's house after their homeowner's association sent a letter that said he had to remove the signs he had posted out in front that support Donald Trump.
A car crashed into a Modesto marijuana dispensary on Monday, leaving a big path of destruction and at least two people hurt.
Mark Orr, the Sacramento State athletics director, was appointed to a new role on the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee, the university announced Thursday.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Tuesday that Rio City Café in Old Sacramento will close on Saturday.
Emergency repair work is continuing on a Sacramento street after a large sinkhole caused a city truck to get stuck.
A man was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2020 shooting death of a mother of four in Sacramento, prosecutors said Thursday.
Millions of dollars are about to be handed out to help keep kids safe in Sacramento, and a workshop was held to ask people how the funding should be spent.
Take a quick hike in the Tahoe region and it's easy to see conditions are ripe for a fire.
Newsom signed a package of bills Friday targeting organized retail theft and other property crimes that will include stricter punishments for repeat offenders.
For the second day in a row, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome was diverted, this time to Canada because of a medical issue aboard the plane.
California lawmakers are trying again to give public school teachers paid family leave. Critics worry it could come at the actual expense of students.
Two men and a woman were arrested in San Mateo Tuesday evening following an armed robbery at a shopping center and attempted carjacking, police said Wednesday.
The Oakland Coliseum hosted the final Bay Bridge Series on Sunday between the A's and the Giants.
Jerar Encarnación and Michael Conforto hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the 10th inning, lifting the Giants to a 4-2 win over the A's on Sunday.
A teary and touched José Canseco was inducted to the A's Hall of Fame Saturday as a season-high crowd gathered for the first game of final Bay Bridge Series in Oakland.
Oakland right-hander Osvaldo Bido shut down the Giants as the A's won 2-0 Saturday in the next-to-last game of the Bay Bridge Series.
After canceling joint practices because of a litany of injuries, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan plans to play several of his starters, including quarterback Brock Purdy, in an exhibition game against the New Orleans Saints.
Democrats from across the country are descending on Chicago for the convention, where the party will rally around Harris — and her new running mate — as the party's nominees.
The DNC, where Kamala Harris will officially be recognized as the Democratic nominee, takes place this week in Chicago.
The longtime party figure and native Chicagoan previews this week's Democratic National Convention, and offers a message to his fellow Democrats about the prospects of the Harris-Walz ticket come Election Day.
Harris leads Trump nationally in CBS News 2024 presidential poll, but it's even across the battlegrounds.
"I'm going to give him a taste of his own conduct," said the former mayor of San Francisco.
The 43-year-old actress, who shared the news in the latest episode of her "Pod Meets World" podcast, said "learning from the experiences of others" motivated her to share the diagnosis.
Health officials around the world are keeping a close eye on an outbreak of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, in Africa.
The National Association of EMS Officials recommends "Cool First, Transport Second" for patients whose body temperature is over 104 degrees.
Florida cucumber grower used untreated canal water found to be tainted with salmonella bacteria, laboratory tests found.
Trader Joe's reports 14 incidents of high flames, a handful resulting in minor burns and limited property damage.
A Stockton gas station owner took it upon himself to keep prices low. At Ernie's General Store, the cash price for a gallon of gas is $3.99.
The federal government announced Wednesday that it will keep interest rates where they are for now, but that could change in the next few weeks.
CBS13 and the Call Kurtis consumer investigative team are on the lookout for the best back-to-school deals so that parents and families can save money.
There are big dreams to bring big development and business to Citrus Heights. The Sunrise Tomorrow Specific Plan is expected to transform the aging Sunrise Mall into a new central hub for the community with a main street, hotels, housing and more.
Customers are speaking out about their experience with the Flashfood app and how they've managed to save a few bucks.
California lawmakers are trying again to give public school teachers paid family leave. Critics worry it could come at the actual expense of students.
Lawmakers quietly amended a bill prompted by a decade-long CBS investigation into California's Newborn Genetic Biobank. They removed the part that requires the state to reveal who is using our DNA for research and why.
The doctor who was released from jail after driving his family off a cliff is being called the "poster child" for and against a California law that allows attempted murder defendants to get at-home mental health treatment instead of standing trial for alleged crimes.
It was an emotional day in court for many who lived through the shootout and Abril's later escape.
Instead of facing trial for attempted murder, the Pasadena doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving their Tesla off a cliff was released on Monday.
A Sacramento woman who wanted to do a good deed by donating her car to charity ended up getting more than she bargained for.
August is the deadline for some weird, very strangely-themed college scholarships.
American credit card debt hit a record Tuesday, especially impacting younger adults who are putting more on their credit cards.
A Salida homeowner contacted CBS13 and the Call Kurtis consumer investigative team to tell us that she was charged for flooring she never received.
The federal government announced Wednesday that it will keep interest rates where they are for now, but that could change in the next few weeks.
Take a quick hike in the Tahoe region and it's easy to see conditions are ripe for a fire.
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire that forced evacuations in the Grass Valley area of Nevada County on Friday afternoon.
Hundreds of people were allowed to return home Tuesday after being forced to flee a wildfire west of Reno that also shut down Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada line.
A new wildfire in Tuolumne County erupted overnight into Friday, prompting evacuation orders.
Ground crews are not only battling flames in the dark, but they're also dealing with tough terrain and dense brush. The only light they have is from the fire and a small headlamp on their helmets.
Kids and teens in Stockton are flocking to a program that's offering them the opportunity of a lifetime.
More than one hundred customers came out to celebrate the grand reopening of a restaurant that's been around for seven decades.
Pursuing higher education can be challenging for any college-bound student and for former foster youth, doing it alone can seem impossible.
A celebration at Sacramento Charter High on Thursday as college-bound seniors announced their campus of choice and 95% were accepted into four-year schools.
A bank employee in Lodi has some big bragging rights. He's never missed a day of work in his 47 years on the job and now he's getting ready to retire.
Find out what kind of weather we're expecting this week.
Our produce man Michael Marks has the best deals in seasonal fruits and veggies.
An electric big rig caught fire in the Sierra Nevada early Monday morning. As of noon, the roadway still hasn't reopened.
CHP says the big rig's batteries were still burning more than four hours later.
There is a debate over banners posted on one Lodi resident's house after their homeowner's association sent a letter that said he had to remove the signs he had posted out in front that support Donald Trump.