California

President Trump has also pledged an investigation into the state’s high speed rail project, a probe legislative republicans say is long overdue. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Republican Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo on NewsConference aired on Feb. 16, 2025. 
 

NBC4’s Chief Political Reporter Conan Nolan talks with former superintendent of LA Unified, Austin Beutner, as to why he is suing the school district. He says LAUSD is cheating students out of arts and music education, this following the adopting of Proposition 28, which was to guarantee such programs at California schools.

President Donald Trump is threatening to steam roll California’s sanctuary state status. This as the legislature considers a new bill that would keep the Department of Corrections from co-operating with immigration agents. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with the author of the ‘California Values Act’, the state’s sanctuary law, former L-A City Councilman Kevin de León. 

Three college students, including a 19-year-old from USC, were killed in the crash that day before Thanksgiving in the Bay Area community of Piedmont.

Occupational studies stretching back decades have found an increased risk of bladder cancer among hairdressers.

Dash cam video has emerged showing the moment a fast-moving mudslide in Malibu swept a white SUV off of the Pacific Coast Highway and into the Pacific Ocean Thursday.

If a doctor’s conduct or procedures cause issues, patients often file complaints with the Medical Board of California, but patient advocates have long pushed the board to be more transparent about potentially dangerous doctors. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2025.

A military fighter jet with two service members on board crashed into the San Diego Bay Wednesday, authorities said.

A lighthearted petition to buy the state of California for Denmark prompted more than 200,000 signatures by Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s talk about taking control of Greenland, a vast and mineral-rich Arctic island. The petition notes California’s superior weather and an endless supply of avocado toast. The organizer says he got the idea after hearing an American...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Friday setting aside $50 million to help the state protect its policies from challenges by the Trump administration and defend immigrants amid the president’s mass deportation plans.

As rain soaked the North Bay early Tuesday morning, a Marin County sheriff’s deputy successfully pulled a driver out of a car submerged in a flooded creek in a rescue that was captured on the deputy’s body camera.

A lawsuit accuses the University of California of racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Latino students over Asian American and white applicants. A group called Students Against Racial Discrimination filed suit Monday in federal court. The lawsuit alleges the university system admits students with inferior academic credentials at the expense of better-qualified ones. It also claims UC’s...

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first legislative win of his second term amid a broader illegal immigration crackdown. 

California water regulators have said there’s no truth to President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. military entered the state and “turned on the water.”

The national holiday encourages us to savor the anticipatory pleasures of looking ahead to a future trip.

A miles-long cluster of dolphins was filmed leaping, gliding and cavorting its way across Carmel Bay on the central coast of California.

A man accused of murder in California appears to have sought a marriage license with a woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.

Kim-Vi Tran, an artist based in the Bay Area, shares how she left her job as a data analyst to became a full-time live wedding painter.

San Joaquin County Sheriff’s deputies found the animals across multiple properties in Clements as part of an ongoing animal neglect investigation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is unsure if he’s welcome to join President Donald Trump’s wildfire tour.