Under the proposed state changes, recipients would gain greater flexibility to participate in activities such as going to school, domestic violence counseling, addiction treatment or mental health care, at an estimated cost of100 million.

As the Trump administration tries to change the way states determine food stamp eligibility, Silicon Valley leaders are fighting back. 

Rising waters have prompted daring rescues and forced evacuations of residents, homeless people and office buildings in the South Bay.

North county residents apparently don't enjoy the same access to public services as the rest of the region. Supervisor Joe Simitian intends to change that.

Less is NOT more when it comes to government spending on quality early childhood education. Since the beginning of the Great Recession, California has cut spending for these programs by 26 percent. The reduction of government-funded quality childcare and preschool programs will cost each taxpayer four times more in 14 years than the dollar spent today.