With the help of a national volunteer project involving more than 100,000 people, 1940 census records for California and more than two dozen other states have now been indexed by name and can be ...

Yesterday the Census released data from 1940 after 72 years of confidentiality expired. California Watch has drilled down to find out how our home state fared back then. At the time the entire ...

Q: I can't find any prices for my Westwood Ware of California bowl, plate and pair of candleholders. Can you help? A: I certainly can, but first some history is in order. The 1940s and '50s were the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s, acting days before Californians finish voting on whether to enshrine ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s, acting days before Californians finish voting on whether to enshrine increased protections ...

In the early 1940s, California fishermen hauled in a historic bounty of sardine that set the backdrop for John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" novel. But by the end of the decade the nets came up empty and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom ...