On this day in 1850, the House voted 150-56 to admit California to the Union as a nonslave state. Every Northern legislator who voted supported the measure, as did 27 Southerners. Two days later ...

California's population fell by more than 182,000 last year, the first yearly loss ever recorded for the nation's most populous state that halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on ...

By 1880, all states regulated abortion in some way, and many allowed exceptions only to save the life of the mother. The 1850 California law punished anyone who “administered or caused to be ...

The California Secretary of State (SoS) shared the 1984 presidential election results (here) in an email to Reuters, where the results match the map being shared online. The results of the 2020 ...