Some of the state’s most powerful legislators want Big Landlord out of California’s single family neighborhoods. The Legislature will consider at least three bills this year to keep
With Rhode Island this week becoming the seventh US state to launch internet gambling, industry panelists at an online gambling conference predicted Wednesday that several additional states would join the
Both sides billed the high-profile California fast food deal last year as a resolution to two years of escalating political tensions. One of workers’ biggest wins in the Legislature during
California’s Senate race was expected to be a three-way Democratic prizefight, but the possibility of a record-low turnout is elevating the chances of Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball
After a dry start to winter, California’s rainy season is finally well under way. December downpours sent water racing through streets in coastal Ventura County and the city of
The biggest challenge facing lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom is the state budget deficit — and it just got bigger.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office projected the shortfall as $15 billion
Business and labor are gearing up to go head-to-head on Californians’ ballots again — this time over a consequential 20-year-old state labor law you’ve probably never heard of.
The two
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging voters to approve a ballot initiative that he says is needed to tackle the state’s homeless crisis, a change social providers say
While overshadowed by national elections, campaigns for school boards and other local positions are in full swing. And school districts are undertaking the task of updating their Local Control and
During California’s 174 years of statehood, it has undergone periodic and often dramatic changes of economic personality. Its admission to the union in 1850 was largely driven by the
A new state office charged with controlling the rising cost of health care in California is moving toward one of the most aggressive goals in the nation, aiming to cap
Jesus Barron answered his wife’s panicked phone call warning him that a mudslide was smashing into their bedroom in the hills of eastern Los Angeles County. Then, the line
