Statewide Region Local News

11/25/2024
Most ships discharging ballast water into California waters are inspected, but state officials have tested the water of only 16 ships. Experts say invaders like mussels are inevitable under current rules and enforcement.

11/25/2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom is urgently preparing to protect reproductive rights from the incoming Trump administration—and the looming possibility of Project 2025-inspired policies.

11/25/2024
Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.

11/25/2024
Learn how health officials and California dairies are responding, or not, to the explosive spread of bird flu through dairy herds across the state.

11/21/2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Racial Justice Act into law in September 2020, following the police murder of George Floyd. For the first time, defendants can put bias from any brush with the criminal legal system — from arrest to sentencing — on the stand.

11/21/2024
Cal State has a goal to graduate 40% of its freshmen within four years. It now graduates 36% — it’s highest rate ever. On other goals, the system is further behind.

11/21/2024
Floodwaters devastated the small communities of Pajaro and Planada in early 2023. California gave each town $20 million to recover – but as residents face down another winter, much of the aid has yet to reach them.

11/21/2024
Gov. Newsom gets the first of 13 regional plans to boost economic development across the state. The others are to be ready in January.

11/21/2024
Chronic absenteeism dropped to 20% last school year, but that is still higher than the pre-pandemic rate of 12%.

11/20/2024
As California public universities try to balance campus safety with students’ right to protest, community colleges are squaring off in court with students and staff who argue that the schools are violating their freedom of speech, explains CalMatters community college reporter Adam Echelman.

11/20/2024
History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political acts.

11/20/2024
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projects a $2 billion shortfall for 2025-26, but says the state can’t afford big new programs. Gov. Newsom has complained about attention on the office’s deficit estimates.

11/19/2024
The California Voter Foundation launched a tool tracking daily vote counts in 18 close contests for Congress and the state Legislature. The tracker aims to show how counts change over time and dispel misinformation about election fraud, the group says.

11/19/2024
Bird flu has been spreading among dairy workers in California’s Central Valley, jumping from cows to people. A new suspected case in the Bay Area came from an unknown source.

11/19/2024
Gov. Newsom just bought a $9 million house in Marin County, but his sources of income haven’t been made public recently. He had pledged to release his tax returns.

11/18/2024
Between the summer session of the California Legislature featuring hot topics like AI regulation and money for journalism, and a special one focusing on gas prices, powerful corporations poured in record-setting money to influence lawmakers.

11/18/2024
Voters in California’s farm belt, stretching more than 400 miles from Kern County on the south to Tehama County on the north, delivered solid majorities for Donald Trump in this month’s presidential election.

11/14/2024
Declining enrollment, the end of pandemic relief funding and uncertain state funding are forcing school districts to make some difficult decisions.