The Trump administration criticized California for protecting violent criminals, but records show state cooperation with ICE ...

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation that had previously ...

An investigation from Tomas Apodaca, at CalMatters and The Markup, found several states were accidentally sharing private ...

California orders bars to provide lids after spate of drink spiking - California law now requires bars or nightclubs to offer ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Scheduling note: WhatMatters is celebrating the Fourth of July and will return to your inboxes on Monday. Faced with ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Democratic Party’s eight months of internal debate, recriminations and soul searching that followed Donald Trump’s ...

As part of a settlement to a class-action lawsuit, a school will be able to dole out up to a combined $20.5 million this year ...

Congress already approved the education funding, which pays for migrant education, after school programs and other services.

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It’s moving toward paying them minimum ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Moments before an important budget vote last week, state Sen. María Elena Durazo stood on the Senate floor and ...

Homeless residents of some of California’s biggest cities increasingly are facing criminal penalties for the actions they ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the world settled into pandemic life, ...