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.

The California Department of Public Health says Diamond Shruumz brand chocolate bars, cones, and gummies contain a proprietary mushroom blend and have been linked to seizures, loss of consciousness, abnormal heart rate, nausea and vomiting.

Community solar projects can give renters and low-income homeowners a chance to go solar, but the PUC’s action is unlikely to give them the option.

As funds for climate change programs are cut, Democrats and environmentalists are pushing for a bond measure on the ballot to restore some funding.

In his revised budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed significant cuts to a scholarship that aids more than 300,000 students and signaled he won’t expand the Cal Grant program.

After a slow start last fall, California’s wet season ended April 1 with the Sierra Nevada snowpack measuring 110% of its historical average.

April 2 Update: City, county, state ballots set for November

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mental health ballot measure 's lead is slipping, so Prop.1 foes are launching a campaign to find and fix rejected ballots.

Voters authorized the Legislature to go to standard or daylight saving time year-round, but nearly six years later no law is on the books. It takes a two-thirds vote, and also congressional action to go to daylight saving year-round.

The primary turnout in the county in 2022 was just under 36 percent, and this year’s county tally is likely to be under 30%, based on this week’s trends.

The Food and Drug Administration also announced that California-based Trader Joe's earlier this month has recalled four products as part of a nationwide, multi-year dairy recall that has left two dead and over two-dozen sickened by listeria. The products are several salad kits and a pre-made enchilada dish.

Californians in March will vote on a $6.4 billion bond to build thousands of housing units for people with serious mental health conditions. A 2018 ballot measure made similar promises, but Santa Clara County and the rest of the state are falling short.

California counted its homeless population this month. Here’s a look at how the state gets the numbers that impact everything from program funding to stump speeches.

State officials hope the Dream for All lottery and an emphasis on first-generation homebuyers will make California’s most generous down payment assistance program more equitable.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that has implications for how much power California officials have over homeless camps.

California’s utility regulators are considering a fiber-only strategy to close the state’s digital divide, but fiber can be prohibitively expensive .