CalMatters

California officials are proposing to increase reimbursement rates for some Medi-Cal providers, who say low pay rates prevent them from taking more patients.

Under his May budget plan, Newsom wants UC and CSU to get more state student housing in 2023-24, but the universities would have to borrow the money through bonds. The state would pay the interest on the bonds annually. Legislative analysts say the state may be overcommitting given far lower projected tax revenues.

Southern California growers and water districts agreed to use less water and receive federal funds in return.

California’s public transit agencies are seeking $5 billion over five years to keep buses and trains running, but time is running out in the budget process at the state Capitol. To address criticism, they submitted a new accountability plan.

Workers from a variety of industries urged Cal/OSHA’s board to quickly pass new rules for hot, indoor workplaces.

In their twice-a-year exercise, legislators killed dozens of California bills in the process known as the "suspense file." They included ones on abortion access, climate and homelessness. The state budget deficit also made an impact.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is closing and downsizing prisons across the state, putting the future of over 1,000 incarcerated students at risk. College administrators say they have few resources to help.

To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

A 2015 law to bring more transparency to paid trips for California legislators has led to only two disclosure forms being filed by the sponsoring groups. The law’s author says it is being wrongly ignored.

A 2021 state law took investigations into California police shootings out of the hands of local cops. Now, some families say the new system is agonizing in its own way.

Workers denied pandemic-era jobless benefits are still struggling with debt and stress — collateral damage as they fight a state employment agency on edge about fraud and an appeals system facing a ‘historic’ backlog. What happens next with these and other legal battles will help decide who pays for a multi-billion-dollar debacle three years in the making.

The governor unveils his plan to cover a California budget deficit now projected at $31.5 billion, up from $22.5 billion in January. He says his plan protects investments in climate, economic development, education, health care and housing.