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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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Big tech energy needs, including for artificial intelligence, has elected officials giving nuclear power a serious reexamination.
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Customers are picking up the $1.7 billion tab after the utility’s equipment was linked to the wildfire and resulting flooding seven years ago.
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Social and environmental groups claimed the project could cause water and air problems not disclosed in an environmental impact report.
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L.A. had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to conservationists who have been trying to restore the lake for decades.
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Some students work multiple jobs and give up extracurricular activities to supplement their financial aid. Many say it’s worth it.
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An Assembly bill by John Harabedian aims to speed up housing recovery after the L.A. fires through a state-led task force.
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Following a Monday executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to freeze all federal aid, California officials attempt to make sense of the chaos.
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Nearly 1-in-3 Californians live in the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.
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One of President Donald Trump's first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary states and cities. California is one of them.
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California Senate leader Mike McGuire reappointed Sen. Susan Rubio as insurance committee chair despite federal bribery probe questions. Rubio denies wrongdoing.
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School officials are scrambling to find an alternate site for its campus while trying to support families, nearly half of whom lost their homes in the fire.
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Internal reports on deaths, disease, abuse and overdoses will give the public a rare glimpse inside taxpayer-funded shelters.