Dan Walters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom insists that he's not running for president but continues to cultivate a national political profile that may indicate otherwise.

California's economy, which contracted into recession during the COVID-19 pandemic and then exploded, may be headed downward again due to national and global economic trends.

For nearly two decades, California's state government has struggled to design and implement a comprehensive financial management system called FI$Cal but although it remains unfinished a new law declares it to be complete.

The California Department of Education is - for no rational reason - refusing to release results of last spring's academic tests, which are likely to be negative.

Pressure is building for another overhaul of workers' compensation, California's multi-billion-dollar system of dealing with job-related illnesses and injuries, but what form it will take is still uncertain.

The closure of California's public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic had a hugely negative impact on children's educations that will reverberate for decades.

Once again, California voters are being asked to raise income taxes on the state's most affluent taxpayers, but this time around the dynamics are different and the outcome less certain.

A newly signed law to regulate wages and working conditions in fast food restaurants is being challenged by the industry via a ballot measure.

As California struggles to close its huge shortage of housing, two new superagencies, one for the San Francisco Bay Area, the other for Los Angeles County, are experiments aimed at breaking the housing logjam.

New legislation accelerates California's self-mandate to convert to a carbon-free electrical grid by 2045. But can California actually do it?