Rabies is virtually 100% fatal in both people and animals once symptoms develop.

California and the Justice Department are set to face off in federal court over a Trump administration effort to block 20,000 ballots cast by alleged noncitizens.

In California, fuel prices often are higher than anywhere else in the country, a reflection of the state's high cost of living that voters want their next governor to address.

California's Prop. 38 seeks to raise a lot of money for medical research, and raises the broader political question of how the initiative process is being used to support private interests.

Monarch butterflies are on their migration path to a warmer climate and their dwindling numbers can be helped by providing the right food.

No, the Culver City High School junior believes he is mature and well-informed enough to cast a ballot now. In Culver City, a local ballot measure before voters — adult voters, that is — in the Nov. 3 election could eventually give 16- and 17-year-olds such as him the right to cast ballots in city and school board elections.