The California governor's race will soon be tagged as the most expensive nonpresidential election in U.S. history, triggering a debate over money and influence that could emerge as the campaign's main issue.

The median home price in California witnessed its fourth consecutive month of year-to-year increases, post more than two years of declines, highlighting that a lasting recovery may be getting firmer, a tracking firm revealed.

According to scientists at the University of California, a cellular defect that disturbs the production of proteins in human cells and can cause vulnerability to cancer has been discovered.

It was also found that a new generation of inhibitory drugs guarantees to cure this defect.

There has been an increase in the number of non-insured people in California due to the large number of job cuts. A jump of 25% in the level of uninsured people has stunned the researchers of University of California at Los Angeles, who have followed the figures for a decade. California’s unemployment rate rose to 12.3% in December which had been 5.7% some two years back.

Reasons are being sought for the lesser number of Californian users benefiting from the settlement agreements that were attained by the health insurers and the state regulators. It is being asked that why is the number of people taking advantage of the settlement regarding the dropping of treatment so less. The treatment drop was the one that members had to face after they fall ill.

On Friday, many people were hospitalized after consuming marijuana brownies at Huntington Beach, California.

Huntington Beach Police Lt., Craig Bryant, said that people eating at a restaurant on Main Street near Beach Boulevard complained of difficulty in breathing and hallucinations. They were taken to the hospital by the paramedics on request.

Times are tough. Recession might be over, but the hurt lingers, and no one knows when it'll go away. But it seems that California's Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of WellPoint Inc., has presumed that people are healthy enough financially and will be able to afford a hike of 39% in their premium rates.

According to a study released today, California's dirty air led to nearly $200 million in hospital because of asthma, pneumonia and other pollution-triggered ailments.

Researchers at the Rand Corp. believe that exposure to excessive levels of ozone caused nearly 30,000 emergency room visits and hospital admissions during the study period.

A lawsuit brought by environmental advocates in California claims that leading brands of fish oil dietary supplements contain unsafe and illegal levels of the carcinogenic chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which were banned back in 1979.

A class-action suit against California's Anthem Blue Cross was filed by consumer advocates on Monday, accusing the largest for-profit health insurer across the state of illegally using unexpected and high rate hikes to try and force customers into inferior health plans.