Sacramento

May 2024

Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says It Will Take Millions to Find Out

‘We Needed Wonder Woman’: Newsom Cuts to Foster Care, Child Services Worry Families

California Republicans Want to Take Financial Aid From Protesters if They Were Violent

UC’s President Had a Plan to Deescalate Protests. How Did We Get a Night of Violence at UCLA?

Californians Are Protecting Themselves From Wildfire. Why Is There Still an Insurance Crisis?

California Passed a Law to Stop ‘Pay to Play’ in Local Politics. After Two Years, Legislators Want to Gut It

April 2024

In a Press Release, Senator Mike McGuire and Assemblymember Jim Wood Say Police Intervention at Cal Poly Was Necessary, Call for ‘Healing’

More California High School Students Want Career Training. How the State Is Helping

A New California Rule Tries to Hold Down Your Health Care Costs. Here’s How It Works

Who’s Selling Your Digital Data? California Gives You Tools to Protect Your Online Privacy

Are California Police Missing Domestic Violence Murders? New Bill Would Let Families Review Cases

An ‘Impossible Situation’: Why California Hospitals Are Suing a Major Health Insurer

California Officials Debate Prop. 47 Changes to Curb Crime. On the Street, the Answer Isn’t That Simple.

Judge Rejects Changing the Name of California’s Trans Youth Ballot Measure

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Major Homelessness Case

Students’ Environmental Ideas Shine in CalMatters’ 2024 Earth Day Contest

A Plan to Change Your Utility Rates Is Dividing California Environmentalists. Here’s Why

California Leaders Take Sides in Monumental Supreme Court Case on Homelessness

California Hospitals Keep Closing Their Labor Wards. Can Lawmakers Do Anything About It?

Democrats Kill California Homeless Camp Ban, Again

Vital Climate Tool or License to Pollute? The Battle Over California’s First Carbon Capture Project

How Gavin Newsom’s Budget Sidesteps the Growing Cost of CalPERS Pensions, for One Year

California Sues Huntington Beach to Stop Voter ID

Why Tortillas Sold in California May Be Forced to Add a New Ingredient

California Requires New Homes to Have Solar Panels. Should Wildfire Victims Get a Break?

California Salmon Fishing Banned for Second Year in Row

California Fails to Track Its Homelessness Spending, Outcomes, Says New Audit

Power Is Never Having to Say ‘No.’ How California Democrats Kill Bills Without Voting Against Them

They Work 80 Hours a Week for Low Pay. Now, California’s Early-Career Doctors Are Joining Unions

Newsom, Legislature Get a $17 Billion Jump on California Budget Deficit

Gavin Newsom Says Baseball Saved Him. But the Legend of His Career Doesn’t Always Match the Reality

California’s Most Controversial Housing Law Could Get a Makeover

Progressive Democrats Propose a Different Path on Crime

Foster Kids Miss Out on Sports and Music. A New California Plan Aims to Help Them Catch Up

‘Getting Significantly Worse’: California Community Colleges Are Losing Millions to Financial Aid Fraud

March 2024

California May Gut Two CalWORKS Programs Helping Thousands of Families

Which Fast Food Workers Will Get Paid More in California?

High Stakes: Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Battle for Gambling Rights in California

Will California Re-Up Its Empty Reserve of Abortion Pills After Today’s Supreme Court Hearing?

California Extends Student Financial Aid Deadline

Why California Democrats Are Divided on Retail Theft Bill

California Jails Are Holding Thousands Fewer People, but Far More Are Dying in Them

California Insurance Market ‘In Chaos,’ Says Former Insurance Chief. Can the New Chief Fix It?

California Doctors Struggle to Make Payroll One Month After Ransomware Attack

California Is Clearing Criminal Records — Including Violent Crimes — to Offer Second Chances

With Prop. 1, Gavin Newsom Again Changes How Californians With Mental Illness Get Help

If California Government Wants to Use AI, It Will Have to Follow These New Rules

California Offers Health Insurance for as Little as $10 a Month. Some Pay More in Tax Penalties

Why Does California’s Vote Count Take So Long?

Why Prop. 1 Foes Are Getting Back in the Fight


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