Municipalities and counties across California are getting their budgets ready for fiscal year 2025-2026.
In part one of an extensive interview, California Local’s Chris Neklason talks to Community News Lab's Julia Gitis about the journey that led her to civic tech, journalism and community information hubs.
Even before the Internet, people were finding ways to communicate online.
California is still preparing for fire season as more communities become Firewise.
Here are three sets of strategies for protecting homes, neighborhoods and communities against wildfire.
All across California, people are working together to protect their neighborhoods, communities and each other.
The Watch Duty team monitors a variety of real-time information resources and compiles all the information in one place.
With spring sprung and the last rains fading into memory, it's Bike Month! And (coincidentally) : public transportation construction projects begin in earnest.
We welcome the warm season with stories of community foundations doing good work ... and more!
By channeling funds to a number of nonprofits working on various issues in a given region, community foundations help solve big problems throughout California.
California prepares for fire season and California Local forks The Newsletter.
Meet the hippie intellectual who changed the world with the first published photograph of our entire planet.
Elon Musk and his cadre of tech leaders might have us believe that embracing cyberculture means abandoning our planet—and humanity. But the giants upon whose shoulders they stand had a much better idea.
In advance of Earth Day, we consider radical changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, and the surprising history of the Coastal Commission.
A radical overhaul of the California Environmental Quality Act appears imminent. And: Is the era of the big NO already ending?
The California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, is the state’s signature environmental legislation, and is also often named as the villain in the state’s housing shortage. But the story may not be that simple.
In which we focus on California public education.
Measuring performance of the California public school system is a complicated business. We explain.
Michael Lewis's new book celebrates the heroes of the federal bureaucracy currently under attack.
‘Who is Government?’ An army of selfless individuals working on problems the private sector doesn’t care about.