With a multibillion-dollar deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget leaves tens of thousands of promised subsidized slots unfunded, keeping families on waitlists for years.
Sixty-five people from a long-standing encampment have been placed in stable housing, and outreach efforts are expanding under a structured rapid-rehousing strategy.
Federal policy fights, a proposed state funding holdback and declining student counts are squeezing school district budgets.
A decades-old payroll system and advance pay practices are costing the state millions and frustrating employees forced to pay it back.
Officials have pledged faster permitting and infrastructure fixes, but residents point to broken promises after earlier wildfires.
The president cites fraud concerns, while state officials call the plan politically motivated and warn of impacts on social services.
An onerous 1970 law remains an open invitation for lawsuits. And reforms should make it easier to build the kind of housing most Californians want.
Only a fraction of planned vouchers reached residents before the state shifted funding to a car trade-in program
A new state audit finds vacancy rates above 30 percent despite hundreds of millions spent on salaries, bonuses and contract labor.
A proposed new city in California demonstrates the benefits of packing more people and businesses into a small geographic area. Removing daunting roadblocks can open up vital experiments in city-building.
The new CalRx insulin will hit the market in January at $55 a month, part of a broader state effort to rein in drug costs.
A district at the edge of the Mojave Desert is part of a network of California schools harvesting environmental, behavioral and academic benefits from a school forest.
Over the past decade, nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured on California roads. Many of those crashes were caused by repeat drunk drivers, chronic speeders and motorists with well-documented histories of recklessness behind the wheel.
Legal experts warn the ordinance is likely to face a challenge from the Trump administration.
A regional design meant to prevent failures during wildfires never worked in practice.
Florida, meanwhile, gains one every two minutes. New data shows how population shifts are reshaping budgets and tax bases nationwide.
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