The university’s journalism school will not host a proposed $125 million fund for California newsrooms, POLITICO has learned.

Los Angeles officials on Tuesday abruptly stopped a longstanding policy allowing employees to communicate using Google Chat messages that were automatically deleted after 24 hours.

The agreement displaced a bill that would have required Google and Meta to pay into a fund for journalism that is shared on their platforms.

Google has failed to persuade a judge in California to throw out a lawsuit accusing the technology giant of monopolizing the online search market.

A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a users' web and app activities. A jury trial is scheduled for August 2025 in US District Court in San Francisco.

As Google Maps turns 20, it's mapping more countries and rolling out generative AI capabilities to keep dominance as the world's top navigation app.

California’s privacy regulators are advancing new rules aimed at governing the use of automated decision-making technology (ADMT). These regulations, proposed by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), focus on increasing transparency and consumer control over the use of personal data in automated processes.

Striking images from devastating wildfires in southern California are all over social media. While many are real, some are fake.

Photos from the path of destruction highlight the mounting loss and how some California communities are forever changed.

Until last year, only one California mammal species had never been caught on camera. A group of Bay Area researchers just shared the first photo of it.

Tenant advocacy groups, landlord associations and elected officials are condemning rent gouging after tens of thousands of people were displaced in deadly fires this month.

California wildfires are highlighting the importance of sustaining local journalism and the need for better policy than a news deal the state cut with Google.