In Southern California, Mexican immigrants listen to the president of their homeland and ponder its fate, and their own in the U.S.

In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, an unusual immersion course in homelessness aims to build law enforcement’s empathy.

A look at California stories from the past week, including a bill on the governor’s desk that could reshape the gig economy.

California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1, defying Gov. Newsom and pushing the state to adopt federal environmental and labor rules in place before Trump took office. Will Newsom sign it?

Firefighters on Friday evening, Sept. 13, stopped a wildfire in Orange County that prompted the closure of Ortega Highway for several hours. The blaze, touched off by a vehicle fire, was reported just before 4 p.m. at the edge of the Cleveland National Forest in the area of Rancho Carrillo Road, Orange County Fire Authority…

The family of a 15-year-old autistic El Modena High School student who died this week in a golf cart crash on campus has filed a claim against the Orange Unified School District, saying it was negligent and caused his death. The district responded that it has video of the scene leading up to the crash…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators identified a violation of Coast Guard regulations that could trigger criminal charges in the California dive boat disaster that killed 34 people. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that all crew members on the boat Conception were asleep when the pre-dawn fire broke…

Prosecutors have taken aim at Felicity Huffman’s blog ahead of her sentencing Friday, saying her “brazen hypocrisy” factored into their request that she serve a month in prison.

Q. Honk: On the 91 Express Lanes there are three-plus lanes that allow vehicles with three or more people to use the tollway for free, or at a significantly discounted toll. How do officials enforce those lanes? Do they have cameras or sensors complex enough to figure out how many people are in a vehicle,…

BOSTON — Actress Felicity Huffman is returning to court to be sentenced for her role in sweeping college admissions bribery scandal. The “Desperate Housewives” star is scheduled to appear in Boston’s federal court Friday after pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy and fraud in May. She’s the first parent to be sentenced among…