California

Besides the presidential, California Senate and local races, San Diego voters also have some important statewide ballot measures to consider before the general election this November.

A ballot measure in California proposes to lock in billions of dollars to pay doctors more for treating low-income patients. Proposition 35 would take an existing tax on health insurance plans and use the money to increase payment to medical providers who see Medi-Cal patients.

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea spoke with shoppers about the future ban on certain food labels.

Roughly 14 million Californians are enrolled in Medi-Cal, and while that number has increased significantly, payments to Medi-Cal providers has increased only incrementally. Proponents of Prop 35, including the California Hospital Association, want money from a tax that already exists to go toward those payments. NBC 7’s Joey Safchick explains. 

California will soon help end the everyday household debate over whether the food in the fridge is still good to eat. The state is the first to ban food labels such as “sell by” or “best before” under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. There are more than 50 different date labels, but the information largely does not relate...

The California Highway Patrol seized nearly $1.7 million worth of fentanyl in two separate traffic stops on Interstate 5, including drugs hidden in packages of raw beef, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office said.

Michael A. Jacobson, 42, was in a Male Community Reentry Program in San Diego and never returned from an approved pass on Sept. 29

Daylight saving time has Americans in every state except for Hawaii and Arizona moving their clocks an hour backward on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. Here’s why it’s still practiced in most of the country and an update on the battle to end it.

For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries near the California-Oregon line. That development comes just days after the largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed. Researchers determined that Chinook salmon began migrating Oct. 3 into previously inaccessible habitat. Dams were demolished as part of a...

Voters’ grievances over crime are putting progressive mayors and district attorneys up and down the state in tough reelection fights.

Albertsons and Vons have agreed to pay nearly $4 million to resolve a civil complaint brought by prosecutors across the state — including the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office — that alleged the grocery chains overcharged customers and engaged in false advertising.

Prosecutors in California are reviewing the convictions of the Menendez brothers, who were found guilty in the 1989 killing of their parents, officials said on Thursday.

Governor Newsom signed the bill that will become law on January 1st, 2025. NBC 7’s Shandel Menezes spoke with the assembly member who wrote the bill.

California’s attorney general is suing a Catholic hospital, saying that Providence St. Joseph Hospital illegally denied emergency abortion care to a woman. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the complaint Monday in Humboldt County Superior Court. Anna Nusslock was rushed to Providence in Eureka after her water broke 15 weeks into her pregnancy with twins. The lawsuit said the doctor at...

Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3059 into law Monday, intended to allow more families to receive donor milk for their babies regardless of what insurance they have.

NBC 7’s political reporter Joey Safchik sat down with Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey, a former National League MVP who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, about their run for U.S. Senate.

Congressman Adam Schiff and baseball legend Steve Garvey are running to represent California in the U.S. Senate.

Law enforcement officials said Monday they are looking for a state prisoner who walked away from a reentry program.

California now has three more state symbols, as of law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom: The Dungeness crab, the banana slug and the black abalone seashell.