Dan Walters

Six years ago while running for governor, Gavin Newsom pledged an all-out effort to build 3.5 million new housing units by 2025. As that date nears, only a small fraction of that goal has materialized despite dozens of new laws and increased pressure on local governments.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to tweak the state's program for improving educational outcomes of at-risk students, but his proposal doesn't fix its fundamental flaws.

Last year, the Legislature voted to curb campaign contributions to local government officials from those affected by official business. While the new law is very narrow, it now faces a legal challenge.

The immense amounts of rain and snow California is experiencing this winter could morph into devastating floods under certain conditions.

In 2015 and again in 2017, the California Legislature reformed how tax and bond measures are presented to voters, providing greater transparency on impacts and requiring ballot summaries to be neutral. There's now a new effort to undo much of those reforms.

A push for governmental reform has popped up in an unlikely place, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

California's bullet train project is still lacking enough money to complete its initial segment in the San Joaquin Valley, much less financing for a statewide system.

The California Environmental Quality Act has been weaponized in conflicts over housing for years, and a new appellate court decision affecting UC Berkeley has once again revived talk about reforming the landmark law. But how far are Newsom and the Legislature willing to go?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom accuses the oil industry of price gouging on gasoline prices and wants to impose penalties on excess profits. But he didn't fare well in the first hearing for the proposal.

A political and legal war between California's state officials and cities unhappy with their housing quotas is heating up, but one very exclusive community won't be bothered.