After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...

No immediate hike in gas prices will occur. But Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature fear the effects of the clean-fuel program.

Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media during a press conference unveiling his revised 2025-26 budget proposal at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 14, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for ...

What happened to three men who were arrested in California and deported? Also: Marines at the border and the economic toll of the raids.

The governor’s insistence led to a week of confusion as lawmakers rushed to work out a compromise with powerful unions and ...

As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants deep in the country, it's sending Marines and soldiers to ...

California lawmakers are weighing a provision in the budget that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some ...

We reviewed vehicular manslaughter cases in California from 2019 through early 2024 to understand how the state handles dangerous drivers. The court records and driving histories reveal a state so ...

Their families won’t know what happened to them. They’ll be shackled, whisked away to another state, forced to subsist for ...

CalMatters wanted to understand how California handles dangerous drivers. When we began looking into it, we found that while there has been research on infrastructure, technology and engineering ...

A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, ...