After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

Customers will pay slightly more for legal weed after California’s excise tax is raised. Some lawmakers want to reduce it as the industry struggles with slumping sales.

Some California youth football leagues ban Guardian Caps. Three former football players in the Legislature think parents and ...

An investigation from Tomas Apodaca, at CalMatters and The Markup, found several states were accidentally sharing private ...

An investigation reveals that anti-homeless actions increased up to 500% after Grants Pass v. Johnson — even in cities ...

Citations and arrests doubled in San Diego, which also doubled the size of its police teams that respond to homelessness.

As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants deep in the country, it’s sending Marines and soldiers to ...

Taxable cannabis sales for the first quarter of 2025 were the lowest quarterly sales in five years; tax revenues from weed sales provide funding for child care, substance abuse education, impaired ...

Active-duty Marines are now stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border in southeastern San Diego County to assist with ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the world settled into pandemic life, ...

CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential ...