Dan Walters

While advocates of regulating prices for consumer services and commodities say the practice protects the public, there's a flip side of also protecting the the finances of those who provide the services.

Interstate 10 is one of the country's major coast-to-coast freeways and has iconic status in Southern California. A weekend fire not only damaged the freeway but once again made it the center of political attention.

Proposals to add specific topics to California public school curricula abound, but they take time away from basic academic skills that are already lagging.

San Francisco is hosting a massive economic conference of Pacific Rim nations this week and it has a lot riding on the outcome, as do those attending the APEC meeting.

Politicians love to promote new laws, programs and services but pay little attention to whether what they have wrought works as promised. The California Employment Development Department is a sad case in point, as a new CalMatters investigation details.

Some California governors leave office on a high note and some in clouds of disdain. New polling suggests Gavin Newsom may become one of the latter.

California hasn't had a really competitive U.S. Senate race for many years. A year from now, voters will choose a new senator after what finally shapes up as a hard-fought campaign.

Fifty years ago, two drifters murdered nine people in the bedroom of a home near Lodi. The memory of it never fades.

California's functional poverty rate is the nation's highest, and Los Angeles County is the state's most poverty-stricken. What can be done about it?

Two new analyses reveal why housing is so difficult to build in San Francisco and San Jose and what must change to jump-start construction.