New California law limits medical cost recoveries from ride-hailing crashes, imposes new driver background check rules ...

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.

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

A million-square-foot data center became a lighting rod in this rural county. Residents and local leaders are fighting back.

Want government records? You might have to pay more, wait longer or even fight the court to obtain them under a proposed new ...

A CalMatters investigation last year found that criminal defendants across the state are routinely convicted without anyone ...

California gave an old mobile home program a new name, a new focus and millions more to spend. The results are starting to come in.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Trump administration appears to be investigating him and his wife. The Democrat said agents ...

State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero.

A California city banned new data centers, underscoring a growing skepticism about the energy-hungry hubs that power ...

School funding in California steers a lot to wealthy districts and to those with high-needs students. Those in the middle get ...