Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan is on its way to voters. What you need to know
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter President Donald Trump’s election gerrymander in Texas with his own redistricting play in California is on its way to voters.
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Lawmakers and Newsom are billions apart on cuts to health care, education and more
While Newsom wants to slash health care services for low-income Californians, reduce funding to public universities and provide no funding to tackle homelessness, Democratic lawmakers proposed softer changes, at times...
Trump’s feud with California moves to the streets of LA
When he took office, President Donald Trump made every indication that California’s politics and policies were directly in his sights. He started with a list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, a designation that includes...
California Democrats push to block ICE from schools, hospitals and shelters
Hospitals. Schools. Shelters. Those are some of the places that California lawmakers want to shield from immigration arrests and raids. They advanced a package of bills this week as President...
CA lawmakers halt hundreds of bills with new spending as deficits loom
State legislators on Friday halted hundreds of bills with new spending attached from advancing. Why? The Legislature again underwent its relatively opaque process known as the “suspense file.” Hanging over lawmakers’ heads...
Abundance meets resistance: Are Democrats finally ready to go all in on building housing?
Amid a post-2024 wave of Democratic interest in the burgeoning pro-development “abundance” movement, this seemed to be an easy year for California’s yes-in-my-backyard housing development activists.
California Republicans want to get tougher on crime. Are Democrats shifting their way?
Republican state Sen. Brian Jones has been trying to block sex offenders from being released from prison through California’s elderly parole program for several years. Last week, for the first...
Rural California, reliant on the Trump administration for jobs, braces for cuts
Far from the halls of power in Washington, the forested hamlet of Mount Shasta has long tied its economic fate to a functioning federal government.
California food banks brace for funding cuts, and not only from the Trump administration
Five years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy and made millions experience hunger for the first time, demand at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services is still higher...
California’s fast food council after one year: A few meetings, three staff members hired
One year into California’s landmark effort to regulate conditions for more than a half-million fast food workers, the state council appointed to oversee the industry has barely settled on how...
