A supermajority of Democrats and an emboldened Republicans return to the Capitol today, at odds over how to lower the cost of ...

A California high school teacher partners with a community college and car dealers to teach teens about work, life and auto technology.

Homelessness grew more nationwide last year than in California, but the state still has more than 187,000 people on the street or in shelters.

Six years in and with two more to go, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, has reached a political inflection point.

Reparations advocates are campaigning for two proposals that failed in the final hours of last year’s legislative session.

California lawmakers can’t let "CalCompute," which could help rebalance the access and development of AI, die after the veto of SB 1047.

Trump 2.0: Amid the budget crunch, legislators plan to fast-track Newsom’s proposal to allocate $25 million for potential legal battles against President-elect Donald Trump before his return to the ...

Legislators want to shield K-12 schools once Trump orders mass deportations, but they can only delay, not stop, immigration ...

California tribes sue card rooms over alleged illegal gambling, threatening millions in tax revenue for local city services ...

As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass begins the second half of her term, her work is about to get more difficult, and test her formidable energies.

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