The Insurance Department found hundreds of violations by State Farm and calls for millions of dollars in penalties and a ...

Tom Steyer’s arguably equally famous older brother Jim is a well known force in Sacramento working on tech regulations and protecting kids online ...

The investigation was honored with the Frank A. Blethen Award for Local Accountability Reporting in the Poynter Journalism Prizes, and as a finalist for excellence in local and regional investigative ...

Asylum seekers pay much more in college tuition and are often excluded from financial aid as their asylum hearings drag for years.

As lawmakers weigh changing elderly parole, a retired parole board officer notes that only 3% of parolees have committed crimes upon release.

California Republicans made gains in the state Legislature two years. Now Democrats are trying to tie them to Trump's unpopularity in 2026 ...

State public purpose programs add hundreds of dollars to each electric bill annually. Rooftop solar subsidies account for about half that.

Newsom cheered the Delta tunnel’s latest milestone. But with decades behind it and major hurdles ahead, will California ever build it?

The federal Local Food Purchase Assistance cooperative agreement program pays for locally grown food for feeding programs, such as food banks. It's ending two years early.

Legislative Analyst Gabe Petek says state spending grew by $100 billion or so a year since 2019, outstripping revenues and resulting in current and future deficits.

Ballots are in the mail for California’s primary election. These are the congressional races CalMatters is watching closely — and the candidates fighting for their political lives.

California health clinics are suing to stop a union ballot measure that would dictate how they spend money — and they say it could force hundreds of clinics to close.