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Dozens of California hospitals shut their maternity wards over the past decade, and the trend continued in 2024 after lawmakers advanced plans to slow the closures.

While incarcerated Californians who aren’t serving felony sentences are eligible to vote, most county jails don’t make it very easy. A bill on Gov. Newsom’s desk would test in-person voting in jails in three counties.

The unfolding rules are a response to last spring’s series of campus protests that led to hundreds of arrests. State lawmakers withheld $25 million from the UC until the system updated its policies.

California has long been lauded — and criticized — for its progressivism, but when it comes to marriage equality, the state has a rather complicated history. If passed this November, Proposition 3 would decisively end the decades-long battle for recognizing …

CalMatters launched its voter event series to provide in-person information to voters statewide.

The state is working on electronic benefit cards with security chips, but is behind schedule. Families are expected to be able to use them in January.

In Rolling Hills, 35 homes are set to lose gas Monday, then 51 homes are expected to lose electricity by Wednesday.

A ballot measure that would mandate "a new approach to expand programs that are proven to prevent homelessness and increase housing affordability" is a sales tax increase. But you wouldn't know it from a flier arriving in mailboxes around the …

Many presidents have humble jobs early on, but few of them have bragged about it. So why is Kamala Harris talking about her time at McDonald's?

Here's one election prediction from a nonpartisan expert: Californians will be so enthused about Kamala Harris they could vote in record numbers. A huge Democratic turnout, of course, would help the party's down-ticket candidates.

Turmoil over Israel's war in Gaza has UCLA, USC and other campuses on edge. A group of experts is advising colleges on separating acceptable protest from bigotry.

Jurado said De León failed to effectively represent the district. De León said Jurado is extreme, aligning herself with activists who want to defund the LAPD.

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others in regulating the middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, whom many policymakers blame for the soaring cost of prescription …

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting "988."

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting "988."

SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie …

Si tú o alguien que conoces pudiera estar pasando por una crisis de salud mental, comunícate con la línea directa de suicidio y crisis 988, marcando o enviando un mensaje de texto al "988".

Anchor House, UC Berkeley's new dorm for transfer students, is part of a larger effort to create a community for students transferring to the campus.