The budget deal between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature forgoes or delays many of Newsom’s proposed cuts, but the ...

Historically, the annual process of writing a state budget has often stumbled over how much money California should spend on its public school system and its nearly 6 million students. However, as ...

A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, ...

Law enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law by sharing automated license plate reader information with ICE ...

Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today's college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood.

She denied drinking, but when asked to perform field sobriety tests, she declined and said “she would need to speak with ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom in May announced that he wanted state workers in the office four days a week. One union negotiated a pause ...

After CalMatters and The Markup published an investigation in April that found that Covered California shared enrollees’ ...

California agricultural leaders see this year as one of the industry’s most trying periods, beset by state and national ...