California’s State Senate approved a resolution Thursday to urge the federal government to pass a bill that would allow the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct temporary interim storage of spent nuclear fuel at facilities away from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a few miles south of San...

The state legislature has taken a tentative step toward regulating sober living homes.

Alarmed by the recent overdoses and deaths linked to the drug, Sen. Patricia Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, introduced a state bill … to increase prison time for those who sell or distribute large amounts of the powerful painkiller.

State Sen. Pat Bates scored a victory on her measure to increase penalties for large-scale dealers of potent painkiller fentanyl this week, with her SB 1323 clearing the public safety committee on a unanimous vote.

Calling fentanyl the “emerging go-to drug for cartels,” state Sen. Patricia Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, said the bill SB 1323 is needed to “cut the head off” organizations of major drug traffickers, who are believed to be importing fentanyl and its synthetic cousins over the border from Mexico and...