The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts ...

California courts failed to report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions, letting some drivers keep licenses and continue driving due to widespread errors and system failures.

Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off some of his proposed cuts to health care programs in a state budget deal he reached with ...

Lauren Hepler is an investigative reporter at CalMatters focused on labor issues and California’s housing crisis. She has ...

Police believed Cervantes was drowsy, unsteady on her feet and had slurred speech. Her attorney says the police lied.

A California state senator had thick slurred speech, appeared drowsy and was unsteady on her feet when officers interacted ...

An investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the state, prompting ...

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 ...

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

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s self-designated deadline for achieving net zero emissions of greenhouse gases is 20 years away. But what ...

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