Dan Walters

Now that Democrats are on top, it's evident that in the absence of two-party competition feuds erupt within the parties themselves.

A poll shows most voters support for Prop. 36, a sign Gavin Newsom's governorship is approaching lame duck status.

State officials can't tell what reduces homelessness due to program secrecy and a lack of coordination between city and county governments.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has called the Legislature into special session to deal with gas prices but offers scant evidence to back his allegations of price-gouging.

Years ago, California education officials adopted a "dashboard" to inform the public about what was happening in public schools, but it was never very useful and now faces withering criticism.

California's public schools face a one-two punch of decreasing enrollment and increasing truancy, which contribute to their financial distress.

California has the unenviable position of having the nation's highest level of poverty, a new calculation shows, driven by its sky-high living costs. It's not the first time and likely won't be the last.

A 2016 penal reform ballot measure proposed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown had loopholes that eventually benefitted perpetrators of sex crimes. The Legislature recently voted to close one loophole that allowed notorious serial rapist Andrew Luster to be granted parole.

Culminating years of debate over the environmental impacts of Southern California's massive array of warehouses, the Legislature has passed a bill regulating future construction.

California officials point fingers of blame at each other over the growing homelessness crisis, but hard data on how money has been spent and what effect it's had is lacking.