From keeping elbows off the table to formal napkin use, these California dinner traditions would shock modern children.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has called solving California’s water wars one of the toughest challenges of her career. Tougher, she says, than passing a federal assault weapons ban in 1994. But ...

California in the 1960s was a wild mix of old-school manners and new-age freedom, especially when it came to dinner parties. Families and friends gathered around tables with rules that seem totally ...

California has added more than 3.2 million jobs since 2010, which accounts for more than 15% of the country's job gains over that time. SACRAMENTO - California's job growth is now in its 113th month, ...

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Joan Didion’s 1979 essay “The White Album” is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Composed as a series of high-resolution prose snapshots of late ...

Last week the Beach Boys, an iconic symbol of 1960s California, announced that the band may reunite for a 60 th anniversary tour. But surf culture was just one small slice of L.A. life during that ...

A San Luis Obispo County rancher walks over a parched lake bottom near Cambria in October 2014. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) California's annual rainy season is getting underway about 27 days later ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's job growth is now in its 113th month, tying the expansion of the 1960s as the longest on record as the world's fifth largest economy continues its recovery from ...

California officials announced Friday that job growth in the world's fifth largest economy is now in its 113th month, tying the expansion of the 1960s as the longest on record.The country's most ...