Dan Walters

California is spending billions to close the "achievement gap" in the state's K-12 schools but we don't know whether it is having the promised impact.

The draft of a "model curriculum" for ethnic studies in the state's high schools has sparked an outpouring of criticism.

California has a goal of reducing is solid waste stream by 75 percent by 2020 but is falling short of that goal.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Legislature face tough decisions on legislation to speed up housing construction.

Legislators are working on a plan to shift money from California's bedraggled bullet train project to improvements in commuter transit.

California has become a two-tier society with incomes, housing costs, education and ethnicity its markers.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is being hammered by allegations that he took campaign contributions from insurance industry sources and favored contributors.

California scored a tactical win in its climate change fight with Donald Trump over auto emissions, but the game of political chicken continues.

California's Unemployment Insurance Fund is the nation's least solvent. Even a tiny economic downturn would drive it into the red.

The University of California implicitly denies jobs or promotions to those who don't enthusiastically endorse "diversity," however that's defined.