1+ week, 11+ min ago   (921+ words) California lawmakers wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without exposing more than a million people to immigration and law enforcement agencies?...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (404+ words) Just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump a procedural win in his effort to limit mail-in voting, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new lawsuit intended to protect the state’s power over how elections are administered....

3+ week, 11+ min ago   (708+ words) This story originally appeared in The Center Square. Billions of dollars of government spending over a decade have done nothing to stop homeownership from slipping out of reach for millions of Americans. That’s especially true for California. The conclusion? It…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1132+ words) Editor’s note: This story contains a term for a 1950s federal immigration program that some might find offensive. Pablo Espinoza and his older son were at the California Museum in downtown Sacramento checking out an exhibit on the World War II…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1369+ words) Stocktonia Concepción Reza grew up in a middle-class family in Mexico City and studied economics at UCLA from 1952 to 1953. She was the recipient of two scholarships, one from Mexico’s central bank and the other from the U.S. Department of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1185+ words) Moorpark College no longer offers specialized counseling for Latino students pursuing a science degree. California State University, Bakersfield, for the first time in years, won’t hold a multiday orientation ahead of the fall term for community college transfer students. And…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) This story was originally published by Capitol Weekly. Xavier Becerra outraised his Republican opponent for governor by more than 2-to-1 in donations of $1,000 or more during the first half of August, as Sacramento’s inside players continued betting heavily on the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1002+ words) This story was originally published by Capitol Weekly. If it wasn’t before, a California initiative to tighten voting requirements became nationalized when Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein, one of President Donald J. Trump’s large donors, contributed $6.5 million to the Yes-on-Proposition 39 campaign....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (868+ words) On a recent Thursday morning, 12 preschoolers at Bright Starts Center in south Los Angeles moved between Spanish and English as they cleaned up after painting and playing with blocks. They stretched before outdoor play and reviewed how to stay safe…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (595+ words) Stockton City Council candidate Desiree Lynch was released on bond from the San Joaquin County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, according to online jail records. Lynch had been booked earlier in the day on five felony counts involving perjury and election…...