Earning six figures as a single Californian? You could be considered low-income in 5 counties. Have a kid? A $100K salary qualifies for public assistance in 11 more.

After scathing audits criticizing Los Angeles’ county-city homeless authority, the county is blowing up that joint agency and starting over.

Trump loosened restrictions on ICE in schools. Now some ESL students have stopped showing up for their classes at community colleges.

Major interest groups allied with the Democratic Party criticized Gavin Newsom's revised budget proposal after it was unveiled last week.

Newsom wants to allocate half of funds from the landmark cap and trade program to high speed rail and firefighting — leaving ...

It would take you a full business week to be able to afford a two-ounce tube of toothpaste and a bag of hot Cheetos," said a California lawmaker about wages paid to jail inmate workers.

Hans Poschman is the Transcription Manager for a new CalMatters project and is based in San Luis Obispo. He has previously ...

California pension fund CalPERS regained tens of billions of dollars after seeing steep losses when Trump announced "Liberation Day" tariffs.

As lawmakers try to rush through thousands of bills, regular people are often cut off at the microphone because the ...

Newsom's budget plan for MediCal, the low-income health insurance program, would shift money for voter-approved increases in doctors' pay and reproductive care to cover other expenses.

California should build a public catastrophe model that would help regulators, insurers and consumers assess wildfire risk and future losses.

California law requires schools to let students wear tribal graduation regalia. But many school districts made the process ...