Legalizing recreational cannabis in California was supposed to bring illegal growers out of the shadows and into a robust, safe and regulated market. When voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, …
Last week, the attorney general’s office completed paperwork for an initiative that, if qualified for the 2024 ballot and approved by voters, would require California’s nearly 6 million public school …
Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law California’s Food Safety Act banning four ingredients that are linked to health risks. These substances — red dye No. 3, propyl paraben, …
Why can’t California build enough housing to meet its demand, even though the state’s population is declining? The state Department of Housing and Community Development was recommending that the state build …
Californians are more aware than most when it comes to the privacy problems linked to tech giants headquartered in their backyard like Apple, Google, Meta and TikTok. However, lurking in …
Oct. 1 is the beginning of what hydrologists call the “water year.” Historically, California’s reservoirs are near their lowest levels by this point after months of being drawn down, mostly …
Despite his claim that California is “the freedom state,” Gov. Gavin Newsom is passing unconstitutional laws that will make Californians less free and less safe. In late September, Newsom signed the “Gun Violence Prevention …
Something unusual — perhaps even historic — happened this month in Placer County, in the foothills northeast of Sacramento. A man named Nathaniel Evan Cabacungan was sentenced to 15 years to life …
Although much of the work to address California’s homelessness crisis takes place at the local level, legislators in Sacramento sought to address the crisis this past year as well. According …
When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 365 this month, he opened a new chapter in a decades-long political and legal war over California laws governing relations between employers and their …