State health officials last year launched a first-ever competitive bidding process for its Medi-Cal insurance contracts, but when the winners were announced, several insurers complained about the process and its potential impact on patient care.

The governor threw communities into disarray two weeks ago by withholding $1 billion in homelessness funding for plans he saw as unambitious. Local officials said this discouraged ambitious programs. Now Newsom is yielding.

After manuevering for months, Anthony Rendon and Robert Rivas make a deal on who will be Assembly speaker in the next Legislature. Rendon will stay on, but Rivas will take over at the end of June 2023.

Newsom’s absence was “strange,” say political observers, given the tradition that the governor will see the president when he visits.

On what they call Suspense File Day, legislators killed about 220 California bills on issues including education, health care, housing and workers.

The Sacramento mass shooting is sure to intensify questions about what elected officials can do to curb rising gun violence and crime before concerned Californians vote in the June 7 primary.

Up to 40,000 union members at the health care giant are expected to protest in solidarity with striking engineers across the Bay Area and Sacramento.

Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Study Center and Division of Research, both based in Oakland, are conducting the trial in concert with Pfizer and BioNTech, which co-developed the vaccine that will be used in the trial.

The new schedule for the service that runs between the South Bay and the Sacramento area takes effect Monday and includes an increase from 16 to 22 weekday trips.

The stock market has soared to new heights, prompting a record number of Silicon Valley companies to go public.

The mayors want $4 billion per-year for five years in flexible funding as part of the state budget. 

The DOJ is seeking concrete details about infection and death counts as well as Amazon’s efforts to prevent the virus spreading in its facilities.

The mandate, which takes effect Saturday and is expected to last a month, requires most Californians to stay home from 10pm to 5am.

Four F-15s—which expect to cross over San Jose at 10:56am—will soar at about 350 mph overhead as part of a statewide trip.

At least six public agencies are re-evaluating contracts with the tax-exempt homeless services provider in light of the allegations.

A years-long probe into bribery at the VA offices in Palo Alto resulted in seven people receiving sentences ranging from probation to prison time.