Congress already approved the education funding, which pays for migrant education, after school programs and other services.

A plan to create a secretive infrastructure entity glided through the state Senate. Lawmakers are now backtracking after transparency advocates sounded the alarm.

The ongoing housing shortage is contributing to the increase in homeless students, but schools are also doing a better job of identifying them.

The number of homeless students in California has grown over the past year. Some of that could be because of better data gathering.

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It's moving toward paying them minimum wage for their work in emergencies.

The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms.

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

Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...

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.

No immediate hike in gas prices will occur. But Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature fear the effects of the ...

Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

Between the state budget and other deals, lawmakers have made big changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.