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

A California union wants to tax billionaires to fund healthcare. The initiative has drawn fierce opposition from Newsom and Silicon Valley moguls.

A Cal State student reflects on the racial profiling her Latino father experienced and how it inspires her to correct the narrative.

A pathway to single-payer healthcare would require dozens — or even hundreds — of difficult economic and political choices.

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom gave condemned prisoners a chance to live differently when he suspended the death penalty. They are not free by any means, but they now have opportunities to grow. “We were literally ...

A program that lets veterans trade fatigues for a lab coat took a hit when federal officials tried freezing millions in grant dollars.

Early 20th century political reformers such as Hiram Johnson saw the initiative process — placing measures on the ballot for voters to decide — as an antidote to a Legislature controlled by moneyed ...

Scheduling note: WhatMatters is taking Juneteenth off and will return to your inboxes Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate for state workers to return to the office four days a week is back on, and ...

An instrumentation intern conducts a maintenance check on a temperature sensor while being trained by an instrument technician inside a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service ...