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CalMatters
CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization bringing Californians stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while holding our leaders accountable. We are the only journalism outlet dedicated to covering America’s biggest state, 39 million Californians and the world’s fifth largest economy.
CalMatters is a longstanding partner of LAist and its reporters in Los Angeles have desks in the LAist newsroom. Both nonprofit newsrooms have grants from The LA Local, which at LAist funds two reporters and an editor on the watchdog journalism team.
Stories by CalMatters
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Ronda Deplazes thought Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court could save her son as he struggled with mental illness. Two years later, she and others say little has changed.
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Republicans and the Trump administration are hoping a panel of federal judges in Los Angeles will halt the new Prop. 50 maps from taking effect.
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Echoing state and local officials, a new analysis agrees: hydrant failures in the Palisades fire were ‘the rule rather than the exception.’
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Rob Reiner may be best known for his Hollywood films, but he was also a Democratic political force in California.
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California spent hundreds of millions on high-paying prison and hospital healthcare jobs, auditors found — but vacancy rates rose since 2019.
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California’s unemployment department bought more cellphones than it needed for remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and kept paying for thousands of unused lines.
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A state regulator is requiring California’s last nuclear power plant to conserve 4,000 acres of surrounding land to keep operating until 2030.
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The new $100K fee strains schools that need foreign workers to fill teacher jobs, especially in special education and bilingual education.
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Since 2016, California has enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president’s new order against such laws worries state officials.
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As driving deaths have skyrocketed across the state, the governor, legislators, the courts and the DMV have failed to act.
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The new ruling comes as courts are considering other challenges to his deployment of troops to liberal cities, such as Portland and Chicago.
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Incarcerated women have accused at least 83 California correctional officers of sex assault in lawsuits that are playing out around the state.
