Dan Walters

California now has a scaled down plan for a 171-mile bullet train in the Central Valley. Is it worth the cost?

A big mistake by California prison officials spread COVID-19 and resulted in dozens of deaths, both inmates and one staff member.

The meltdown in California's Employment Development Department resulted from bad managerial decisions. So who should be accountable?

California's once-surging economy has been clobbered by the COVID-19 pandemic and its recovery could be slow.

Two polls starkly disagree on whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom's popularity has plummeted or has held up well as he deals with COVID-19.

The pandemic has worsened California's housing crisis and new state housing goals will be a political test.

While California's politicians wrangle, millions of school kids are stuck at home due to COVID-19 and their educations are suffering.

The pandemic is worsening California's income inequality, but how to assist those in poverty remains a puzzle.

The massive failings of California's Employment Development Department are laid bare, and could have political fallout.

California lifted a COVID-19 stay-at-home order Monday, just after it was revealed that unemployment had spiked in December to 9%, one of the nation's highest rates.