Dan Walters

While Gov. Gavin Newsom touts California as a model state, he increasingly tries to shift blame for the state's unseemly features.

California's politics have become highly polarized over the last quarter-century but the state is not alone, new research has found.

The ceaseless skirmishing among interest groups over rules governing personal injury lawsuits is known as "tort wars" and a double-barreled battle over a controversial employment law is heating up.

Three members of California's congressional delegation are running for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Dianne Feinstein, which touches off political scrambles for their congressional seats.

At least a half-dozen high-impact measures are likely to appear on the 2024 California ballot, generating multi-million-dollar campaigns for and against.

Although 2022 was a strong year for California's economy, with impressive job growth, the state's economic future has become cloudy.

California's state government has a sorry history of botched projects and programs and long-term care insurance is another example.

Legislation to impose "wealth taxes" on the fortunes of very wealthy Californians is being proposed, but would they generate new revenue or persuade the rich to flee?

California's chronic shortage of housing manifests itself in sky-high housing costs, the nation's worst poverty and its highest level of homelessness.

California wants more people to use public transit for transportation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but ridership is down and transit systems face a "fiscal cliff."