In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation that had previously ...

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 ...

Customers will pay slightly more for legal weed after California’s excise tax is raised. Some lawmakers want to reduce it as the industry struggles with slumping sales.

Three former college football players in the California Legislature think youth leagues should allow padded helmet add-ons like NFL players wear.

Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

Between the state budget and other deals, lawmakers have made big changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

In Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, homeless Californians describe their experiences as camping ban enforcement has ...

California needs $85 billion for public employees' retirement health care. Gov. Newsom's new labor deals pause spending to pre-fund that expense.

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 ...

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

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 ...