Public utilities can collect hundreds of millions of dollars in profits directly through fees on electric bills. Critics say it's excessive ...

Abortion activist David Daleiden pleaded no contest to a California felony charge stemming from his secret recordings of Planned Parenthood officials.

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Carl DeMaio aims to revive California's Republican Party with a bold, combative style, promising to challenge Democrats and ...

An Assembly bill by John Harabedian aims to speed up housing recovery after the LA fires through a state-led task force.

One of President Trump's first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary states and ...

Following a Monday executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to freeze all federal aid, California officials ...

Even after financial aid, low-income students often pay $20,000 a year or more to attend California’s private colleges.

A wide-ranging but vague order prompted California and nearly two dozen other states to sue President Donald Trump’s administration.

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The proposed budget is already scrap paper because the wildfires that scorched LA will clobber tax revenues and impose massive new burdens.