• Outrage over pervasive sexual misconduct at the California state Capitol is culminating in hearings to change rules that women say have allowed abuses.

• More fallout from PG&E's handling of the San Bruno Pipeline explosion: The California Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating whether former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief of staff illegally acted as a go-between.

• Congressional Democrats are eying big pickups in California next election.

• CAL FIRE says record acreage was burned this year.

• As dispensaries in California look to a new era of legal adult-use marijuana, some may have to do something they haven’t done before: pay their taxes.