David Chiu

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Oct. 6 that gives students, particularly transgender students, at state public universities the ability to have their lived names printed on their diplomas.

AB 22, a bill concerning familial rights to housing in California, died in the state Assembly on Thursday.

The California State Legislature recently passed AB 1487, which could change the way local governments in the Bay Area finance affordable housing.

On Monday, the California gasoline excise tax increased from 41.7 to 47.3 cents per gallon of gas as part of SB 1, which aims to raise funds for highways.

A central topic in the debate over housing development in the city of Berkeley, the North Berkeley BART station is now on track to receive plans for multifamily housing that will replace the station’s 8-acre parking lot.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that mandates a statewide audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” Yet on the same day, he vetoed another bill that passed unanimously through the state Senate and Assembly, and would have mandated that rape kits be processed within 120 days.

Gov. Jerry Brown recently passed three bills that tackle the housing shortage by increasing housing development near BART stations, addressing homelessness in the city of Berkeley and promoting student housing development throughout California.

BART may soon turn parking lots and vacant property into housing, pending Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval of a controversial bill.

An Antioch resident charged with raping and murdering a UCSF dental student in 2015 could have been detained earlier if the rape kit from a separate sexual assault case had been tested in a timely manner.

Only weeks after Donald Trump secured the electoral votes to place his conservative administration in the White House, California won a Democratic supermajority in both houses of its legislature.