At 90%, Sierra Nevada snow is nothing like record-smashing 2023. But it's the thrid year in a row with near or above-average ...

Investigators find that Assemblymember Evan Low's tech nonprofit paid Alec Baldwin $227,000 to appear at two events, then deliberately tried to conceal part of it ...

Los Angeles' leaders got plenty of warnings they've been overspending. Now they're using the January fires to ask the state for a bailout.

The Gardena Democrat has been exaggerating his brief stint as a reserve police officer — and especially his relationship with ...

The Trump administration clawed back hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to California health agencies, likely ...

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Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom debate who can play in high school sports when large groups of students struggle to read and can't keep up with their grade level.

Trump administration threatens to pull funding over California’s law that prohibits schools from requiring staff to notify ...

In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one ...