California's spending tripled in 25 years under Democratic leadership, as homelessness, water shortages, and poverty issues grew.

Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to ban California companies from deploying driverless trucks. Yet lawmakers have resurrected ...

Air quality board will vote Friday on targets and fees that aim to phase out water heaters and furnaces powered by natural ...

The new rules would have set increasing targets for sales of zero-emission products over the next decade. Opponents say they ...

Environmentalists want to raise net metering payments to solar panel owners. But the subsidies were unfair to other ...

A CalMatters investigation finds that Californians are routinely convicted of crimes without anyone investigating the charges ...

Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the Assembly and Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in efforts to make oil and gas companies pay for climate damage.

MAGA-aligned leaders took over the city council and set up a community review board for library material and singled out LGBT ...

A cost-of-living increase that helped community colleges adjust to a new funding formula is expiring, leaving some districts to make budget cuts.

Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn’t kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said there's nearly a $20 billion hole in the budget, but if lawmakers restore his Medi-Cal cuts the hole ...

California’s young Democrats have tips for candidates on how to make inroads with their peers: Be concise, progressive and … ...