Fish caught of the coast of California one day end up on patron's plate the next day at some of the best restaurants in town.

California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media during a press conference unveiling his revised 2026-27 budget proposal at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 14, 2026. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez ...

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El gobernador Gavin Newsom y los legisladores estatales alcanzaron un acuerdo presupuestario que se basa en gran medida en ...

Many tests to diagnose Alzheimer’s aren’t consistently covered by insurance, putting answers out of reach for the people who need them most.

Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel speaks during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 22, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters Two days before the fiscal year kicks off ...

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Boyle Heights and Garden Grove residents are demanding accountability after fires and a toxic scare revealed how little protection they actually have.

A budget crunch has California prisons limiting access to programs for incarcerated people. The system is clamping down on guards' overtime.

Hospitals and a healthcare union have agreed to pull rival initiatives from the ballot, but a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires remains headed to November voters. The union behind the deal has ...

In their new book, UC Berkeley sociologists G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel set out to understand how we make sense of the difference between the California we see in the movies and the ...