State Sen. Roger Niello holds a news conference in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 13, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters To cover a budget gap in Medi-Cal — which ...

EXIT INTERVIEW — When Jessica Millan Patterson took the reins of the California Republican Party in 2019, the media coverage ...

Immigrants lacking permanent status contribute approximately $8.5 billion in state and local taxes a year, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit research ...

A smoldering reaction under the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Southern California has made its neighbors' lives miserable for almost three years. A bill that seeks to compensate them faces uncertainty ...

The Senate is preparing to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

A full audit — independent, rigorous and public — could draw a blueprint to root out waste and fraud without theatrics.

Most single jobless people get 393 pounds a month plus some housing costs, while those deemed too sick to work receive 810 ...

California's healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants faces budget cuts as costs exceed estimates, challenging the state’s financial stability.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government ...

Pasadena Unified School District, already reeling from the Eaton fire, faces a multimillion-dollar budget deficit that it aims to lower via staff reductions.

At least 2,000 credentialed school staff have received preliminary layoff notices before the March 15 state-mandated deadline ...

The rulings come as the Trump administration had demanded that government agencies submit plans for a second wave of mass ...