CalMatters

Proposed legislation hasn't moved out of the Assembly and Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in efforts to make oil and gas companies pay for climate damage.

A CalMatters investigation finds a dangerous shortage of defense investigators across the state.

California is a sanctuary state where police can’t help federal immigration authorities. Lawmakers want to keep them out of schools and hospitals.

State takes its tariffs fight to the 9th Circuit appeals court, which experts believe is more likely to give it a favorable ruling.

MAGA-aligned leaders took over the city council and set up a community review board for library material and singled out LGBT books. Have they gone too far?

Why lawmakers resurrect policy proposals that have been rejected, often with the backing of big donors.

Young Californians were disillusioned with Democrats last November. The solution? A simple message, a focus on cost-of-living and progressive causes, and a reckoning with the party’s age problem, say young Democrats.

State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes maintained from the start that she wasn’t drunk or on drugs after she was cited for DUI in Sacramento.

San Diego’s community college district finds itself directly in Trump’s crosshairs: Its “pride centers” were the only items called out by name in the administration’s plan to slash more than $10 billion of federal spending on education.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of the intent to revoke Chinese student visas could affect more than 50,000 at California universities and colleges.

A proposal in Congress would require some adults to document 80 hours a month of work.

Across Los Angeles, rent hikes have led to fewer bus and train riders in an example of how California’s housing crisis is also making its transit crisis harder to solve.