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Meg Whitman, who spent a record-smashing $71 million of her own money to sell herself as a political outsider from the corporate world who could turn California around, decisively defeated Steve Poizner on Tuesday to become the first woman in state history to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Carla Marinucci

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• Brown's statement on results

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina became the first Republican woman in California to win her party's nomination for U.S. Senate, setting up a November showdown against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer that promises to be the three-term incumbent's toughest election fight ever. Joe Garofoli

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• Boxer challenges Fiorina to debates
• No hugs! Poizner offers conditional "if" "then" support

Santa Clara voters Tuesday approved Measure J, the San Francisco 49ers' plan to build a $937 million stadium in their community.  John Wildermuth

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Plans by nearly 11,000 nurses to strike Thursday at five University of California medical centers were put on hold Tuesday when a San Francisco judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the walkout.  Victoria Colliver

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The European debt crisis is likely to have only a "modest" impact on the U.S. economic recovery as long as Wall Street stabilizes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday.

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