The California Legislature is often the arena for games of political Whac-A-Mole.
A piece of controversial legislation fails to clear all of the Capitol’s procedural hurdles and appears to
On the first episode of his new podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom broke some news last week: He no longer aligns with the Democratic Party on trans rights.
He invited right-wing
California’s state budget is mired in what fiscal authorities call a “structural deficit,” meaning its revenues cannot keep up with spending mandated by current law.
For several years, Gov.
California lawmakers want to stop artificial intelligence from ripping you off.
In recent weeks they introduced five bills to address the issue, making predictive pricing based on a customer’s
The fires that reduced Altadena, Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles-area neighborhoods to rubble have also shined a harsh light on California’s raging insurance crisis.
Lawmakers have proposed a
By Dan Walters
So what game is Gavin Newsom playing?
Ever since Democrats lost the White House to Donald Trump four months ago, California’s governor has been retooling his
In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much. That includes the members of the California Legislature.
Of the 2,278 bills lawmakers submitted by
Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and its more famous cousin, the Golden Gate Bridge, began in 1933, and both were carrying traffic by 1937.
The 1989 Loma Prieta
By Brett R. Alldredge
As a California trial court judge who just retired after serving for 30 years, it was particularly disheartening to read some of the recent comments from
By Jeanne Kuang
One year into California’s landmark effort to regulate conditions for more than a half-million fast food workers, the state council appointed to oversee the industry has
Big Oil faces mounting lawsuits as extreme weather worsens, with California leading efforts to make fossil fuel giants pay billions of dollars for the climate damage they have long denied.
Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week.
That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health
