The architects of Proposition 40 believe California is ready to tax billionaires — but the debate has only grown more contentious as the Nov. 3 vote nears

California’s latest technology boom is fueling vast fortunes — and anger over the widening divide between the ultra-rich and everyone else. Now, voters will get a say.

The Trump administration sued California for allegedly failing to join an effort to remove suspected non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls, the latest escalation in the federal government’s clash with Democratic-led states in the run-up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

San Francisco, home to some of the world’s most valuable artificial-intelligence companies, is temporarily banning new data centers within its borders.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said he would not run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris enters the race, ruling out a potential primary showdown between two of California’s most prominent Democrats.

The Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter endorsed City Councilmember Nithya Raman for LA mayor, casting aside some members’ earlier reservations and bringing its organizing heft to her effort to unseat Karen Bass.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced $48.5 million in grants to support California’s maritime industry and implored a local county board to support a proposal that would speed a massive new shipyard and innovation hub.

The pandemic-era workweek is finally coming to an end for tens of thousands of California state workers.

Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for a federal tax on billionaires after failing to stop a California wealth tax from reaching the November ballot, setting up a high-profile test of whether voters will back one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to tax the rich.

The group behind a proposed 5% wealth tax in California is pushing for a compromise with Governor Gavin Newsom by pitching a 2% levy instead.

President Donald Trump accused California Democrats of “big cheating” in the state as the vote count continues — drawing a rebuke from Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and other officials who have warned all along that the results would take time.

Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra surged to the top of California’s crowded gubernatorial primary, with billionaire Tom Steyer trailing in a contest shaped by money, scandal and uncertainty.

California’s labor unions and billionaires are spending lavishly on a political battle over a proposed new tax on the state’s wealthiest citizens. To take their cases to the voters, they depend on people like Benjamin Israel.

President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Steve Hilton to be the next governor of California, anointing one of two GOP hopefuls while also potentially giving a boost to Democrats because of the way the state’s primary system works.

Californians haven’t elected a Republican governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. But in this year’s race, opinion polls are suggesting the unthinkable for Democrats: a potential two-man showdown in November in which both candidates are from the GOP.

The home of the world’s highest-flying social media companies is considering a measure to clip their wings.

Jennifer Tejada, whose software company PagerDuty Inc. has plummeted almost 42% this year over concerns about AI disruption, said the worries are “overbaked.”

Palantir Technologies Inc. said it’s moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver at a time when tech firms are headed to South Florida as local officials promote the region as an alternative to California’s Silicon Valley.