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.

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

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

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

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?

Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes the California wealth tax measure and supports one nationally. But there’s another tax-the-rich measure on the state ballot.

California's attempt to make state government use of AI more transparent was an interesting experiment, but ended in failure, as many experts and watchdogs warned.

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

The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to UC professors. Their legal team says it has proof that was unconstitutional.

California’s reading scores have slowly improved after the state invested in several approaches, including literacy coaches for teachers.