The bond money will pay for repairs and upgrades at thousands of K-12 school and community college buildings.

A newly created regional housing finance authority for the entire San Francisco Bay Area will send a bond of up to $20 billion to the ballot. But the fate of its statewide counterpart looks bleak.

Mayor of Santa Cruz comments on the push to bolster housing production in California’s coastal communities.

The state Supreme Court takes a business-backed initiative to make it more difficult to raise taxes off the Nov. 5 ballot. Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders had sued to kick it off.

The Assembly approved a union-backed bill that would add new disclosure requirements for local government contractors, but the Senate last week removed the self-auditing requirements and the public naming of private-sector employees.

At Stanford University and the University of Southern California, 14%t of students who were admitted in the fall of 2022 had legacy or donor connections, while 13% of 2022 admissions at Santa Clara University were children or grandchildren of alumni. 

A program that helps small businesses is just one of the proposed budget cuts on which California’s governor and the Legislature disagree.

California lawmakers want to exclude restaurants from a new law that aims to eliminate surprise costs for consumers.

The Legislature passes a placeholder state budget, but must still negotiate with Gov. Newsom on the final deal. How the state spends taxpayer money is largely being decided out of public view.

The governor has been critical of local homelessness efforts and his newly revised 2024-25 budget not only pulls back an extra $260 million that local officials had counted on, but removes all of the homeless funding.

The California Assembly last week voted 56-8 to approve a bill to force disclosures from artificial intelligence companies. The Senate now takes up the measure, which is opposed by the influential California Chamber of Commerce.

Backers of a tough-on-crime California ballot measure put homelessness at the forefront of their campaign to roll back Prop. 47.

The bill adds new rules about employee supervision at stores with self-checkout and restricts self-service to customers buying 10 or fewer items.

Two new bills in the Legislature would allow state funding to support sober housing for homeless residents, a significant departure from California’s current housing-first law.

California utilities will shift billing to a fixed fee starting in 2025. Most Californians won’t see much change, or will have a lower bill.

California passed a law in 2022 to limit ‘pay to play’ in local politics. Now, after two years, legislators want to gut it.