Sacramento

January 2024

After Visit to Humboldt, Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces New State Strategy to Restore Salmon Runs

They’re Getting $1,000 a Month for 3 Years. How Guaranteed Income Is Changing Lives in L.A. County

Bill Would Let Therapists and Social Workers Decide When to Confine Mentally Ill Californians

California Lawmakers, Raising Fears of Political Violence, Want to Shield Their Properties

California Gave Fast Food Workers a Seat at the Table. What Comes Next?

How Big Is California’s Homelessness Crisis? Inside the Massive, Statewide Effort to Find Out

What’s Happened Since California Cut Home Solar Payments? Demand Has Plunged 80%

Approaching Bay Area Deadline a ‘Test Case’ for California’s Housing Crisis

What a GOP Fight Over Undocumented Health Care Says About California’s Changing Politics

350,000 Californians Are Now on the FAIR Plan, the Last Resort for Fire Insurance. Now What?

Cal State Faculty Ends Their Strike After Reaching a Tentative Contract Agreement

Cal State Faculty Strike Across All 23 Campuses in Historic Labor Walkout

California Picks Its Next Governor in More Than 1,000 Days. Why the Race Is Already So Crowded

Arcata’s Jana Ganion Named Governor Newsom’s ‘Senior Advisor for Offshore Wind’

California Ends COVID Isolation Rule for Asymptomatic Cases as Winter Infections Climb

Dream for All: Down Payment Assistance for First-Time California Homebuyers Relaunches With New Lottery

Homelessness Is on the California Ballot This March. Will Conditions Change on the Street?

State Program to Clear Homeless Encampments Show Signs of Success, but Housing Remains Elusive

Parents’ Rights Groups Mobilize as California Advances a Ban on Youth Tackle Football

Why California Community Colleges Are Reluctant to Spend More Than $500 Million in State Money

Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Homeless Encampments, With Huge Implications for California

With Tighter Budgets, Police Seek Less Time in Court

Newsom OK’d a Minimum Wage Increase for Health Care Workers. Now He Wants to Delay It

Newsom Unveils Plan to Cut California Climate Funding

Digging Out: Newsom Outlines Plan to Cover State Budget Deficit

Cal State Faculty Union Vows to Strike Over the University’s Final Pay Offer

Supreme Court Case About Impact Fees Could Have Huge Consequences for Housing in California

As California Evictions Boom, Whether Tenants Get Lawyers Depends on Where They Live

Assm. Jim Wood Introduces Bill to Make Dungeness Crab the Official State Crustacean

Friendlier Prison Guards? Why Gavin Newsom’s Advisers Want Them at San Quentin

California Legislature Starts 2024 Session With Big Budget Deficit and Big Protest

California New Laws for 2024: Cheaper Vasectomies and Birth Control

New California Laws for 2024: Nursing Homes Must Provide More Information Before Evictions

New California Housing Laws Aimed to Streamline Building Process Take Effect in 2024

December 2023

California New Laws for 2024: Tougher Penalties for Child Trafficking

California New Laws for 2024: Alerts for Missing Black Children

Will Tougher Fentanyl Penalties Ease Overdoses Crisis? New California Law Targets Dealers

New Road Rules! The California Highway Patrol Would Like You to be Aware of These New Laws Taking Effect on Streets and Highways in 2024, So That We All Might Drive Better in the New Year

California New Laws for 2024: Speed Cameras and Cruising Allowed

California New Laws for 2024: Consumer Protection Beefed Up

California New Laws for 2024: Workers Get More Paid Sick Days

California New Laws for 2024: Employees Get Protection for Using Cannabis

Surprise Ambulance Bills Put These Families in Debt. A New California Law Bans the Practice

State’s End-Of-Year Affordable Housing Bonanza Likely to Leave Dozens of Near-Ready Projects ‘Mothballed’

Mental Health Programs That Served Hundreds of Kids — Including in Humboldt — to Close After California Payment Changes

California Is Raising the Minimum Wage for 2 Industries. Others Could See Pay Hikes, Too

Domestic Violence Shelters, a Guardrail Against Homelessness, Face Steep Funding Cuts

California Approves Rules That Turn Sewage Into Drinking Water

How Big Oil Wins in Green California

‘Things Have to Change’: Big Decision Looms as Klamath Basin Ranchers, Tribes Battle Over Water and Salmon


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