The month kicked off with triple-digit temperatures in many parts of the state, with millions of Californians under heat advisories through at least Thursday.

The season for pumpkin spice lattes is here. If you’re going to order one in California this week, you better get it iced, as the Golden State bakes in a heat wave. The hot weather comes as an area of high pressure over the eastern Pacific Ocean has nosed into California.

More than 6 million people in the western U.S. are under heat advisories and watches this week, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service Down the California coast and across the southwestern U.

California’s attorney general is suing a Catholic hospital, saying that Providence St. Joseph Hospital illegally denied emergency abortion care to a woman.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital in Northern California for allegedly refusing to provide a woman with emergency abortion care after she had a miscarriage.

California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most selective schools will not favor applicants with familial or monetary connections to the schools.