A lawyer who worked for now-imprisoned attorney Tom Girardi pleaded guilty to criminal contempt on Thursday for disobeying a court order that called for settlement funds to be distributed to relatives of those killed in… 

Just weeks after major storms brought snow to the Sierra Nevada, a winter heat wave has all but eliminated California’s snowpack gains. Satellite photos from NASA show the extent of the major melting event, which… 

SACRAMENTO — Despite a plea from the head of the California Democratic Party for underperforming candidates to drop out of the governor’s race, all but one of the party’s top hopefuls spurned the request. Party leaders fear…