With less than a month to go until the California gubernatorial primary, candidates are hoping to land key endorsements from big political names.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday released an updated budget plan that shows California has erased its projected deficit for the next two years, thanks to billions of dollars in additional tax revenue tied to Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom.

California’s spate of mushroom poisonings, which has killed four people and hospitalized 43 others, is the largest known outbreak of its kind in U.S. history, experts say.

Condemned California prisoners reportedly watch pornography on taxpayer-funded tablets meant for education, according to inmates and news reports.

With early voting in the California primary now underway, the race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom is still rife with uncertainty.

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang admitted to federal law enforcement that she “secretly served the interests of the Chinese government.”

After more than a century, Ventura is set to lose one of its oldest businesses. Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling announced on May 8 in a WARN notice that it will shut down its Ventura plant permanently on July 10.

The link hits home for Rushan, who spoke with Military.com in March 2026. Her sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, 63, a retired physician and ethnic Uyghur, was disappeared by Chinese authorities in September 2018 in China’s western region of Xinjiang. She was taken after Rushan publicly spoke out against the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of Uyghurs.