Dan Walters

Gov. Gavin Newsom is staking his political career on solving California's housing and homelessness crises.

An informal alliance of opposites is forming to oppose Senate Bill 10, the 2018 legislation that eliminates cash bail for criminal defendants and creates a new risk assessment program.

California has a housing crisis but another, much smaller crisis near the Capitol could demonstrate how the housing shortage could be addressed.

In his second budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom is spending more and saving less - an approach that the Legislature's budget expert says could leave the state less able to stave off a recession's impacts.

Does moving California's presidential primary election to March make the state more relevant? Not so far.

What used to be called vocational education is making a comeback as education officials recognize the needs of students and the larger society.

Although Gavin Newsom promised to jump-start housing construction in California, his first year as governor saw production decline.

Fraud is rampant in California's system of compensating workers for employment-related disabilities and its' concentrated in Southern California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled the "framework" of a long-sought compromise on divvying up water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Two recent critiques of the state's efforts to raise academic achievement by disadvantaged students indicate that reality is beginning to rear its ugly head.