Clear Lake was once a resort destination. When its water quality deteriorated, tourism plunged.
The end to decades of intractable charter warfare came courtesy of an unstoppable grassroots movement.
A bill awaiting Gov. Newsom’s signature would bar new private prison contracts. Two industry giants are already reinventing themselves.
The state might be three decades late in meeting its 2030 climate goals and more than 100 years late in hitting 2050 targets.
Armed with a state override of its rejected application, Promise Academy filed a new request. Then came the lawsuits.
As the number of H-2A guest workers mushrooms, California labor contractors and growers are packing farmworkers into motels and houses in working class neighborhoods.
A proposed law could reboot California’s public investment system to provide a stable source of local funding for affordable housing.
How an agency charged with protecting public health gave talking points to the lead-battery industry.
Long a community with little clout, the state’s renters won a victory with national implications.
One analysis predicts consumers would lose $460 billion between 2021 and 2026, primarily due to reversals in net fuel economy.
Former jail and prison inmates say they have been charged excessive amounts for the cost of probation, which they can never repay.
Health officials took eight days to send letters to parents of children possibly contaminated by lead. And not everyone received a letter.
An ICE investigation details days of suffering in which Kamyar Samimi pleaded for help and attempted suicide because he said the pain from methadone withdrawal was so intense.
Facing rent hikes, tenants at Chinatown’s Hillside Villa apartment complex rallied outside their landlord’s home to call for an alternative solution.
The media’s erasing of women of color from the climate activism narrative is dangerous for the movement, says one young activist.
Cory Booker emerges from the school choice closet. More California kids are missing classes due to fires. Ethnic studies gets a reboot.
Selling credits for forest protection hasn’t worked before. Why does the state’s air board think it will now?
The deported immigrants of Mexico City’s Little L.A. remind us that people with problems don’t go away. They just go somewhere else.
Bill author David Chiu implored Assembly members to imagine the impact of a massive rent increase on a typical tenant’s health, children and job.
In an era of wealth inequality, said State Sen. Connie Leyva, passing a bill to put a stop to exorbitant rent increases “is the least we can do.”