Boyle Heights and Garden Grove residents are demanding accountability after fires and a toxic scare revealed how little protection they actually have.

Hospitals and a healthcare union have agreed to pull rival initiatives from the ballot, but a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires remains headed to November voters. The union behind the deal has ...

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First partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom scolds the media for asking Gov. Gavin Newsom questions that weren't about the newly signed legislation that provides funding for Planned Parenthood and ...

Billionaires want to build a new city on California farmland. They're lobbying to skip environmental reviews and using a shipbuilder as political leverage.

Bills moving through the California Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, parked RVs and homelessness prevention.

An investigation by The California Newsroom and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found that many California officers disciplined for biased conduct remained employed in law enforcement.

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