Should California pension funds invest in fossil fuels? How about Tesla and Palantir? Those debates are playing out at CalPERS and CalSTRS.

California lawmakers want to expand organized sports at prisons. An incarcerated journalist says the only winner would be the prison budget.

Students could earn a bachelor’s degree faster in select fields. Work experience could count toward required class units.

California progressives want to hike taxes on corporations and billionaires to absorb federal funding cuts to Medi-Cal. But backfilling the loss would not address the state’s existing — and growing — ...