To speed things up, officials offered contractors a $20 million incentive if they finished on time.

The strike has laid bare a tricky cultural divide in the Bay Area, between traffic-weary tech workers who drive the local economy, and blue collar transit workers who feel left behind.

Solar facilities like Ivanpah could be the future — or, they could be a footnote in the history of clean energy.

Residents of California's Central Valley are trying to stop a high-speed rail system that would connect San Francisco to Los Angeles from cutting through their land.

Luxury electric car maker Tesla is expected to report a profit on Wednesday. The profit comes not from the $100,000 cars, but from California Zero Emission Vehicle Credits that amount to thousands of dollars a car when resold to other car makers.

Millions of Californians will be eligible for healthcare under the new law, and lots of them know nothing about it.

California Governor Jerry Brown is looking to join other states in basing funding increases at public universities on measures like higher graduation rates.

Given that it is legal to manipulate other devices in a car, the court suggests that people should take it up with the legislature to change the law if the ruling seems arbitrary.