Temperatures in Palm Springs on Tuesday were the hottest ever recorded for the city during October since records began.

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.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday to help protect minors from harmful sexual imagery of children created through the misuse of artificial intelligence tools.

Newsom has signed a bill into law that will ban the sale of tampons and other menstrual products that contain certain levels of potentially toxic chemicals.

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

Just a day after California announced that it is suing a Catholic hospital in the state for refusing to perform an emergency abortion, the issue of whether such facilities should be required to perform abortions at all came up in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen.