The Trump admin declared that its plan to pump more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will not jeopardize endangered species.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Daniel Barad is an organizer at Sierra Club California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking the attorney general to investigate whether oil companies are using false advertising or price fixing.
COMMENTARY: Newsom made some progress on some of his campaign promises, but what he called “big hairy, audacious goals” remain elusive.
“Californians should not pay the price for decades of PG&E’s greed and neglect,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
The 15 new laws include measures that limit the purchase of semiautomatic weapons to once per month, and ban their sale to anyone under 21.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Kristen Soares is president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.
A new California law that reclassifies some independent contractors as employees will likely expand health insurance coverage.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Alan Steinbrecher and Sean SeLegue are chair and vice-chair, respectively, of the State Bar of CA Board of Trustees.
California urges other states to go its way: Let citizens, not politicians, draw district maps.
COMMENTARY: CA's longest-running political battle, over limits on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, is about to heat up again.
It was a busy day for GOP-affiliated courtroom battles against the state of California.
As the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment washed across the country last year, it hit especially hard in the California Capitol.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Kim Delfino is California director of Defenders of Wildlife.
COMMENTARY: California desperately needs more housing construction, and the Bay Area’s experiment will be closely watched.
COMMENTARY: Although the state is enjoying multibillion-dollar budget surpluses, CAs may face tax increase proposals next year.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Rob Lapsley is president of the CA Business Roundtable. Allan Zaremberg is president & CEO of the CA Chamber of Commerce.
Three bills signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom set up new programs, including peer support groups, for firefighters and first responders.
"Every kid's going to want to go to college out here in Cali," said Warriors guard Glenn Robinson III.
COMMENTARY: The Democrat-controlled Legislature passed a measure kneecapping the one remaining political process they don't dominate.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown and China’s top climate change official have formally launched a California-China Climate Institute.
Turning paper victories into a meaningful labor movement with more private-sector members could take work, even in pro-labor California.
On renter protection, new building and homelessness, here's what Newsom has (and hasn't) done so far.
The governor says a water accord already in progress is better for the state.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Juan Novello is chief operating officer of the California Latino Economic Institute, based in Sacramento.
The Trump administration has revoked California’s unique authority to combat tailpipe pollution on its own terms.
Even by the last-minute, helter-skelter standards of the end of California’s legislative session, the past 24 hours were remarkable.
COMMENTARY: Newsom’s first legislative session as governor began with promises to vigorously confront CA's ever-growing housing shortage.
GUEST COMMENTARY: CA's contemporary effort to modernize the water system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta officially began in 2006.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Alarmingly, the California Air Resources Board is poised to endorse the Tropical Forest Standard at its meeting next week.
Newsom's executive order will crack down on black market vaping products, fund more public awareness campaigns and raise taxes on e-cigs.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Maurice Hall is associate vice president for water at Environmental Defense Fund.
The debate follows a well-worn script: Protected species require water also needed by cities and farms. The new element is Trump.
GUEST COMMENTARY: John McManus is president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.
As California lawmakers return for the final week of the 2019 legislative year, the issues they take up will be sweeping and eclectic.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Jared Martin is president of the California Association of Realtors.
COMMENTARY: In politics, as in sports, rules of the game often influence, or even dictate, who wins and who loses.
Gov. Gavin Newsom vows that California "will keep fighting" for cleaner cars, despite the Trump administration's efforts.
COMMENTARY: Newsom wasn’t born when the TV game show “Let’s Make a Deal” began its run but he’s channeling its host, Monty Hall.
COMMENTARY: No issue in this legislative session will have more impact on California’s workers and economic future than Assembly Bill 5.