Education officials will begin more rigorous screening of financial aid applicants, citing instances of fraud at California’s community colleges.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

CalMatters’ third Emmy award honored accountability journalism that, as one reporter described, “I could not have done” without Digital Democracy.

People gather at City Hall to protest the federal administration during the “No Kings” national rally in San Francisco on June 14, 2025. Photo by Nic Coury, AFP via Getty Images A week after President ...

Despite the curfew, people are still coming to downtown LA for protests against the Trump administration's immigration ...

Fear of immigration raids is driving patients to cancel health care. A third of medical appointments and half of dental ...

LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to ...

The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino's Kern County sweep, which a federal judge ...

Many undocumented immigrants have long feared that their Medi-Cal data would be used against them. Newsom calls it "an abuse.

The budget state lawmakers approved rejects some Medi-Cal cuts, and pays for public transit and higher education. Now the ...

Legislators, cutting $3.5 billion in funding, endorsed a freeze on state health care for undocumented immigrants but want ...