Dan Walters

The state Capitol's annex will soon disappear and a replacement will be built costing more than a billion dollars. No one will be sorry to see the ugly, dysfunctional building go.

California's economy was tied for the nation's highest unemployment rate in October while Nebraska had the lowest.

California's ban on firearms magazines holding more than 10 rounds has been upheld by a federal appeals court - but the U.S. Supreme Court may have the last word.

California's serious and prolonged drought is having serious and prolonged impacts on California's agricultural industry, the nation's largest.

Political reaction to a spate of smash-and-grab retail thefts indicates that crime could be a hot button issue in next year's California elections.

California politicians have been jousting over the state's chronic housing shortage but now the debate is turning into a political war.

Los Angeles County has 10 million residents but just five county supervisors. The difficulty of drawing new supervisorial districts underscores the need to enlarge the county's governing board.

One of the sticking points in President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion social policy legislation is a change in tax law that would have huge effects on California.

California's treasury is awash in money, even as the state's overall economy is sluggish, and the debate is beginning over how to spend the huge surplus.

In 2013, California's system of financing public schools was overhauled in an effort to close the "achievement gap," but we still don't know whether it's working.