Mayor Karen Bass’ challenger, Councilmember Nithya Raman, says LA has lost confidence in Chief Jim McDonnell. That prompted Bass to back him, even as police protect ICE agents and draw the public's ...

Anyone under the age of 18 can get married in California. While lawmakers seek to restrict the practices, these liberal groups tried to block it.

Biddy Mason, while enslaved in California, sued and won her freedom. Then she bought and developed land and launched a church and a school. Now LA is renaming a park for her.

A federal judge ruled that agents likely violated the law in conducting warrantless arrests without assessing flight risk.

Keeping up with your California representatives felt impossible before. Now you can watch them like a hawk: Sign up for My Legislator, your weekly, personalized report that tracks what your state ...

California no longer leads the nation in cost-adjusted poverty; it's No. 2. Rivals will likely weaponize that status anyway should Gov. Gavin Newsom run for president.

California’s opaque process allows powerful Democrats to bring home millions of dollars while rural, Republican-led districts receive little to none ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated the Supreme Court's decision shooting down President Trump's plan to restrict mail-in voting before the November election.

California’s high-speed rail authority spent $600,000 reimbursing outside consultants for questionable trips to gyms, a nightclub, a cigar lounge and more.

CalMatters has found that the nine K-12 school districts in California that own military-grade weapons have not been reporting them annually.

After a 144-year-old newspaper war, a bankruptcy and the internet gobbling its ad revenue, the Sacramento Bee is deeply cutting its staff, its owners announced.