This fall, voters will decide whether California should authorize a $10 billion bond to help the state respond to climate change. Below, a longtime farmworker housing manager says Proposition 4
By Lauren Hepler
A string of sexual assaults in Los Angeles shelters. A brutal murder in a motel transformed into emergency pandemic housing. Rats, roaches and garbage piling up in
California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the
By Jim Newton
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag in Paris last month, formally marking the beginning of the runup to the 2028 Games in LA. With
California legislators just sent Gov. Gavin Newsom more than a dozen bills regulating artificial intelligence, testing for threats to critical infrastructure, curbing the use of algorithms on children, limiting the
By Dan Walters
Gavin Newsom’s flirtation with national political status ended abruptly when Vice President Kamala Harris, often depicted as his rival, became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.
California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.
While California’s July
In long-term impact, the most significant measure on California’s Nov. 5 ballot may be one that, if passed, would overhaul governance in Los Angeles County, home to a quarter
The Legislature has foisted a $500 million compromise on affordable housing developers and one of the state’s largest construction unions. Not everyone likes the deal and it’s not
Every session of the California Legislature seems to produce at least one bill that generates high-octane political debate and media attention.
As the 2023-24 session winds down this week, Senate
California voters will help settle a feud between Gov. Gavin Newsom and health care providers over how to spend the proceeds of a special tax on health insurance premiums. Below,
California voters will help settle a feud between Gov. Gavin Newsom and health care providers over how to spend the proceeds of a special tax on health insurance premiums. Below,
