Sacramento
May 2024
California Climate Programs Would Lose Billions in Newsom’s Budget
The Single Largest Cut in Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Hits California Health Care Providers
California Could Require Age Verification to Visit Porn Sites
Scorching Schoolyards: California Groups Want More Trees, Less Asphalt at Schools
Potential Tough-On-Crime Ballot Measure Promises Less Homelessness. Experts Aren’t Convinced
What Drives California’s Budget Decisions? A Lot of Politics, Not as Much Data
These California Schools Connect Kids to Community Services. Will They Survive Budget Cuts?
Should California Doctors Report Domestic Abuse to Police? Here’s How Physician Lawmakers Voted
Newsom Releases Billions for Mental Health Housing Ahead of Schedule: ‘Time to Deliver’
College Campuses Can’t Hire Undocumented Students. How That Might Change in California
Gavin Newsom’s Budget Proposal Ditches Promise to Fund 5 Years of Growth for UC and Cal State
How Vietnamese Lawmakers Struck Back When L.A. County Declared Jane Fonda Day
Should California Be Able to Require Sobriety in Homeless Housing?
Gov. Newsom’s Revised Budget, by the Numbers
Disconnected Youth: Some Young Californians Lack Work, School Options
Californians Will See Lower Electricity Rates and a New Fee That Won’t Vary With Power Use
When Is a California College Degree Worth the Cost? A New Study Has Answers
Will California Voters Decide Tax Limits in November? It’s Up to the Supreme Court
Will Californians Get Any Relief on Gas Prices?
Did California’s Massive COVID Homeless Shelter Program Work? A New Evaluation Probes the Results
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?
April 2024
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
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