Researchers say about 800 plants are involved in plastics or plastics-chemicals in California. Many are around Los Angeles and are expanding.

The court’s decision allows – but doesn’t require – states to bar transgender student athletes from playing on girls’ and ...

California's budget plan, Newsom’s last as governor, relies on higher revenue projections and new taxes to delay healthcare ...

The state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed includes $55 million for the DMV to build a data-sharing system to comply with ...

A bill that would have charged some people high fees to secure records from California public agencies was scaled back.

A new California law gives just more flexibility to keep defendants in jail rather than releasing them to community-based mental health treatment programs.

Due to Trump’s education cuts, at least 40% of employees are gone, raising concerns about whether the department can still serve student needs.

California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, ...

A voter fills out their ballot at a vote center at the Hotel Piccadilly in Fresno on June 2, 2026. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted ...

California voters will decide on 14 statewide policy proposals come November, from the controversial billionaire tax to an ...

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

State leaders struck a deal with Uber and trial lawyers to keep rivaling measures off the November ballot, but no deal yet on ...