A new normal could mean economic devastation for California farms, says one local economist.

If you listen to California’s political class, the high-speed rail project sounds like a textbook boondoggle – over-budget, delayed and larded up with waste. Yet in communities across California’s farm belt, the discourse is refreshingly different.

The revised budget proposal now provides a total of $452 million for statewide flood protection, including the hard-hit Central Coast.

Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more manure and fertilizer into sewers.

Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom have different opinions on the best next steps for California’s high-speed rail project.

The vaccine rollout has been chaotic, according to news reports and hundreds of emails sent by The New York Times' California Today readers.

Perhaps more than any other part of the country, California stands to benefit from the $2.2 trillion proposal by Joe Biden.

Federal officials are reportedly refusing to meet with the California High-Speed Rail Authority after one of Trump’s Twitter tirades.

San Jose city officials will have to decide later this month whether to bolster protections for renters or weaken them to give landlords more power.

San Jose has to amend its contract with the California High Speed Rail Authority to reflect delayed construction deadlines for the bullet train.

A Santa Clara County judge ordered a convicted horse abuser to pay $113,000 in restitution to rescue groups that cared for the animals seized from his ranch last year.

California’s persistent drought is turning into a money-suck of historic proportions. The dry scourge will end up costing the state $2.2 billion and more than 17,000 jobs, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.