No one should be allowed to buy votes.” California lawmakers say it should be illegal for wealthy people like Musk to offer big cash payments prior to elections.

A Los Angeles teacher says that anti-immigrant hardliners might feel differently if they could see his students and their families up close.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's legal team calls President Trump's arguments for deploying troops to Los Angeles "terrifying." The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today is hearing the case.

Consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.

Health care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared sensitive user health data with Google, LinkedIn and Snapchat ...

President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant drive is a political gift to Newsom, a springboard for him to fill a vacuum and claim leadership of the opposition to Trump.

Scientists and officials say they need to figure out why the famed alpine lake isn't improving despite decades and billions ...

Education officials will begin more rigorous screening of financial aid applicants, citing instances of fraud at California’s community colleges.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

CalMatters’ third Emmy award honored accountability journalism that, as one reporter described, “I could not have done” without Digital Democracy.

Despite the curfew, people are still coming to downtown LA for protests against the Trump administration's immigration ...