The number of Californians facing eviction was relatively low for years during a lengthy statewide moratorium. In the year after it ended in June 2022, cases soared and still remain high in large counties.

More than half a million California health care workers are expected to see a pay increase in January thanks to a law raising the minimum wage for their industry.

San Jose was known as the lowrider capital of California until 1986, when the city banned those cars and created “no cruising zones.” The city overturned its ban on lowriders in 2022, and on Sept. 1 of this year San Jose city officials joined car enthusiasts in celebrating the first Annual Lowrider Day.

Housing developments will now be more streamlined with less red tape, density laws can be overruled in the interest of housing, and institutions like colleges or religious organizations can now use portions of their property to build housing.

Juror pay, cannabis cafes and psychedelics got the axe. Water rights, workers’ rights and renters’ rights were signed.

Proponents originally sought seven days of sick leave. The bill also extends protections against retaliation to workers who are in a union.

More than half a million fast-food workers, mostly minorities and women, will earn higher minimum wage, but some say that’s not a living wage.

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a tax on firearms and ammunition, among other new gun control laws. California’s remaining gun manufacturers wonder if they have a future.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara unveiled a plan to shore up the California insurance market for homeowners, in which insurers would return to wildfire zones, but would have an easier path to rate increases.

A patchwork of bills is giving housing developers and local governments more options to reduce red tape for housing projects.

The bills require 5,300 companies that do business in California and have revenues exceeding $1 billion to disclose greenhouse gas emissions and financial risks from climate change

Unions won major victories in this year’s legislative session on pay for fast food and health care workers, benefits for strikers and bargaining rights. Business groups say labor has too much power at the Capitol. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas says unions are counting on lawmakers to deliver results.

After years of failed efforts, the Legislature sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a measure to tax firearms and ammunition to fund gun violence prevention in California.

Lawmakers shelved until 2014 a bipartisan bill to prohibit Tik Tok on state phones. It’s the latest attempt at social media regulation to get stalled in California.

Legislative analysts raised red flags about the tentative deal for prison guards, the lack of time to review the contracts negotiated by the Newsom administration, flaws in computing salary comparisons and vacancy rates and the bottom-line cost of $5 billion over three years.

Hazel Hawkins in Hollister and Watsonville Community Hospitals will get millions in the state's bailout.