California budget: More detail on cuts, more pushback
Interest groups push back as more details become public on the California budget cuts proposed by Gov. Newsom.
Opinion
No matter what district attorney candidates say, Los Angeles is much safer than it used to be
The rhetoric in the Los Angeles district attorney race overstates the scope of the office, crime realities and top priorities for voters.
College campuses can’t hire undocumented students. How that might change in California
Federal law bars undocumented students from working on campus. Two California bills would change that for public colleges and ...
Gavin Newsom plans to cut $2 billion in public broadband projects
California's budget deficit could force reductions in broadband internet projects Gavin Newsom championed to close the ...
Opinion
How California’s bursting budget morphed into a $45 billion deficit in just two years
A major miscalculation in revenue forecasting allowed Gavin Newsom to boast of a California budget surplus that never actually materialized.
CalMatters15h
Gig companies spent $200 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers strike during what they ...
Will California Legislature fix police, farmworker laws?
CalMatters stories lead to calls to reexamine California laws on the use of munitions at protests and on farmworker safety.
California cracked down after a crash killed 13 farmworkers. Why are workers still dying on the road?
After 13 California farmworkers died in a single crash, the state passed new rules. Now workers are being killed in ...
CHP isn’t supposed to aim less-lethal munitions at protesters’ heads and fire into crowds. It did at UCLA
Protesters do not appear to attack or threaten the CHP officers in the videos recorded by CalMatters, including the same ...
Newsom releases billions for mental health housing ahead of schedule: ‘Time to deliver’
California will have billions of dollars for new mental health and homelessness housing following voters' approval of Gov. Gavin Newsom's Proposition 1.
Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal ditches promise to fund 5 years of growth for UC and Cal State
Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest California budget includes cuts to the University of California and Cal State systems.
How Vietnamese lawmakers struck back when L.A. County declared Jane Fonda Day
California’s Vietnamese-American lawmakers pressured Los Angeles County not to have Jane Fonda Day be on the anniversary of ...