California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara recently rejected State Farm’s request for “emergency” rate increases, setting up what could be a highly consequential showdown with the state’s biggest insurer
California residents now pay the highest price for electricity in the continental US, state analysts reported last month. Costs have been driven in part by levies to prevent and insure
Annual Black History Greens Festival celebrates the community legacy of Virginia Avenue Park
The city of Santa Monica and the Black Santa Monica Community Group will host the 10th annual
For all the math taught at college, the California State University system is stumped over an arithmetics problem it has less than five months to solve: How to keep operating
By Marisa Kendall
CalMatters
The Fremont City Council gave final approval this week to an ordinance that bans camping throughout the entire city, while also making anyone “aiding, abetting or
Fewer California high school seniors are completing federal financial aid applications than in past years, which some analysts say is a sign that students may fear the Trump administration will
By Ben Christopher, CalMatters
The speedy processing of building permit applications is not typically considered a popular political cause.
The recent Los Angeles firestorm may have changed that.
Thousands of
California’s Legislative Black Caucus and the Reparations Task Force continue their fight to scrape away at the last vestiges of legalized slavery remaining within the state constitution.
Assemblymember Lori
Sterling Klippel is awed by the beauty of nature but spends his working days resisting its power.
Casting worried glances at a gray sky above the Sierra Madre Dam in
After saying it would run out of funds by March, California’s last-resort fire insurance provider will impose a special charge of $1 billion on homeowners and insurance companies, the
It’s been three months since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, a new law that pledged to provide “mass treatment” for those facing certain drug charges. But since the
A proverb said to have arisen in 16th-century England postulates that “too many cooks spoil the broth.” When too many people are working on a project without clear accountability, it
