Candidates for California lieutenant governor are pitching ambitious plans on housing, higher education, climate, immigration and public land, testing how much power they can wring from an office often dismissed as ceremonial.

The California Family Council led a protest Saturday outside Yorba Linda High School ahead of the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track and Field Preliminary meet, urging the California Interscholastic Federation to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.

California may soon have to battle other states for oil resources as its imported supply runs dry, a leading lobbying group has warned. Jodie Muller, CEO of Western States Petroleum Association, said the limited amount coming into the Golden State means it will be pitted up against the rest of the US and foreign markets.

Candidates link high costs and homelessness to slow housing approvals, outlining competing plans with major stakes for affordability.

Even Southern California's least-visited beaches have a trash problem.

It took Ruth Barry three years to get a US green card. Then she moved her family back to Berlin.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist and attorney Nancy Hogshead speaks out against California Gov. Newsom over trans athletes in girls' track and field.

Betty Broderick, one of California’s most infamous female killers, died Friday. Broderick, 78, was serving a prison sentence of 32 years to life for gunning down her ex-husband and his new wife in 1989, a shocking double homicide that spawned countless TV shows, movies and podcasts.