By Maya C. Miller for CalMatters The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will deploy election monitors to five California counties on Election Day, the department announced Friday, in what it describes as an effort to […]
By Jocelyn Wiener and Marisa Kendall for CalMatters One of Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s marquee mental health programs may broaden its reach despite persistent questions about the number of people it’s helping and whether it’s achieving the […]
By Cayla Mihalovich for CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a set of bills meant to recognize incarcerated firefighters, including a historic measure to raise their pay to meet the federal minimum wage during active fires. The wage increase, […]
By Ana B. Ibarra and Kristen Hwang for CalMatters Federal immigration agents are more routinely showing up at California medical facilities as the Trump administration ramps up deportations. They may come to the emergency room, […]
By Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters The Democrats who control California’s Legislature are poised to ban the sale of one of the most popular types of handguns, like the one owned by arguably the state’s most […]
By Ana B. Ibarra for CalMatters A debate over roads may cost Glenn County its only emergency room. Glenn Medical Center, a 25-bed hospital in the rural agricultural town of Willows, north of Sacramento, is […]
By Kristen Hwang for CalMatters During the school year, kids attending schools in the Tahoe region are served cafeteria meals of ground turkey tacos, chicken or tofu bowls with brown rice, a salad bar filled […]
By Kristen Hwang for CalMatters Cynde Soto, a quadriplegic who requires around-the-clock care, has been on Medi-Cal for most of her life. Recently, she came into a modest inheritance, about $8,000, that has helped cover […]
By Nigel Duara for CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom today called for the closure of another prison in his new budget proposal, which would be the fifth facility closed under his watch, though he didn’t specify which […]
By Loretta Lynch for CalMatters Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911. Now, some 114 […]
By Tracy Nguyen for CalMatters Imagine driving 75 miles one way every day because your life depended on it. That used to be the case for residents of Redding, in Shasta County, who needed treatment […]
By Jeanna Kuang for CalMatters Far from the halls of power in Washington, the forested hamlet of Mount Shasta has long tied its economic fate to a functioning federal government. Yet even in a county […]
By Adam Echelman for CalMatters Heading into his first semester this fall at Feather River College, Conor Robinson considered camping in a tent after struggling to find a 1-bedroom apartment he could afford. Larissa Griffith […]
By Julie Cart for CalMatters More than 2 million acres of local land in California designated as ‘high’ or ‘very high’ fire danger areas Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more […]
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