36 funding to the state budget. I believe public safety should always be the first role of government, and we owe it to the people of California to do better to keep our communities safe.

San Diego County officials are being inundated with lawsuit after lawsuit alleging heinous behavior by social workers — men and women accused of sexually exploiting children as young as 8 years

If Assembly Democrats had been right on this issue, they wouldn’t have needed to lie or force hostile amendments behind closed doors.”

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Gavin Newsom is speaking out after California Democratics blocked a proposal that would make it an automatic felony to purchase a 16 or 17-year-old for sex.

Just outside Dunsmuir, Mossbrae Falls cascades down mossy cliffs in ethereal curtains of mist, a natural wonder that should be a major tourist draw. But the city has struggled to get the rights to build a trail for safe public access.

A bill in the California Legislature would allow using hounds to hunt bears, but hunters could not kill the wild animals.

A debate over whether to create harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from 16- and 17-year-olds exploded in the California Legislature this week. Republicans and some moderate Democrats were pushing for a new tool to help law enforcement go after those who solicit older minors for sex.