For the fourth year in a row, California lawmakers are weighing whether to give violent criminals the legal right to cite abuse in their legal defense.

In a surprising role reversal, at least in image, the traditionally plodding L.A. County government looks more urgent and creative than L.A. City Hall.

We wouldn’t let anyone else live in a place that doesn’t have a smoke detector," one prison safety expert said about California falling behind on replacing its fire alarm systems.

A person walks up a flight of stairs at an apartment complex in Marysville on Nov. 7, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters Should California landlords be required to rent to tenants with ...

California needs to ramp up reforestation to keep pace with wildfires — instead, funding and staff keep shrinking.

With world-renowned cultural campuses, San Diego is one of the country’s top 100 arts communities, but can it hold its position amid shrinking arts investment and rising costs?

Environmental groups say Rhys Williams' new job at a lobbying firm undermines his impartiality on California's waste oversight board ...

California is suing the Trump administration over conditions on emergency grants that tie funding to the president's ...

Grizzly bears went extinct in California, but that hasn’t stopped a fight over whether the state should study bringing them back ...

The state ended a $1 billion school HVAC program two years early, leaving thousands of districts' broken systems unrepaired.

The stretch of Wilshire Boulevard that passes through MacArthur Park was temporarily closed in Los Angeles on July 10, 2026. City officials are considering permanently blocking it to automotive ...

La administración Trump intenta mantener la capacidad de detención de inmigrantes en California a pesar de la oposición de los líderes demócratas del estado. This article is also available in English.