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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.
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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.
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Do they fight for unconditional fight for wildfire victims in their home state? Or fall in line behind President Trump?
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Citing the L.A. fires, Trump directed federal agencies to “immediately take actions to override” water operations and environmental rules. But the water mostly serves Central Valley farms.
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Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of rebuilding in LA may eat up much of the money voters approved in November for school repairs statewide.
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The president excluded Gov. Newsom from plans for his visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles today, but the governor showed up on the tarmac anyway, and the two said they would cooperate.
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Trump apparently wants to override new Biden-Newsom rules that have widespread support among Southern California cities and some Central Valley farmers.
