In an unrelated action, California’s gasoline excise tax, which is adjusted annually, increased 1.6 cents per gallon on ...

California lawmakers on Monday approved one of the most substantial rollbacks of the state’s signature environmental review ...

Some California youth football leagues ban Guardian Caps. Three former football players in the Legislature think parents and children should have the option of wearing them.

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

California’s top universities can pay their athletes directly — a dramatic shift in college sports that blurs the line ...

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation that had previously ...

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. The U.S. Senate voted not to interfere with state artificial intelligence regulations, defeating a 10-year moratorium on such laws ...

A substantial tax hike for California’s faltering legal cannabis market is set to take effect despite an aggressive industry campaign to suspend the increase that won the support of some ...

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 ...

Dozens of Marines are part of a new development that points to the Trump administration’s military buildup on the southern border.

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