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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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Even after California legalized marijuana, illicit cannabis grows continue to pollute public lands. And the contamination, new research shows, lingers.
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin meets with local and congressional leaders in San Diego to tout the U.S. and Mexico’s progress in cleaning up the polluted Tijuana River.
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California’s fire safety regulators are more than a month late with a study on mid-rise apartments and staircases.
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California law enforcement agencies seize about 11,000 ghost guns every year. The state now is suing websites that help people manufacture untraceable firearms.
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California is updating CalEnviroScreen, a tool that officials use to decide who is prioritized for environmental grants.
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California community colleges can give credit for relevant work experience, but some students don’t know it’s an option.
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New budget language lays out how Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to structure a $200 million electric vehicle rebate program.
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In San Diego, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted California’s drug enforcement efforts, while criticizing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns.
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A top California water official offers an inside look as the Trump administration referees a Colorado River stalemate.
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Since Trump beefed up immigration enforcement, California child care providers and families are staying away.
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"We're basically pushers," a tech company researcher writes in one chat. Social media users, school districts and states want damages.
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If you can’t easily consume it, having marijuana in your car does not give California police the right to search the vehicle.
