Dan Walters

California water officials are seeking "voluntary agreements" to enhance water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and have achieved a new breakthrough.

A months-long power struggle over the state Assembly speakership ended with a political deal. But will changing one politician for another make any difference?

As California's water crisis worsens, desalination of seawater is getting a new look as a potentially limitless source.

Nearly three years after California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to aggressively work on California's homelessness crisis, he's once again placing it atop his agenda.

Gavin Newsom has easily won his second and last term as California's governor. So does he now try to climb higher on the political ladder or merely finish out his governorship and return to private life?

This year's political campaigns in California have hit a low mark for relevance and a high mark for vapidity — with one exception.

A decades-old conflict over how to teach reading to young children, dubbed "reading wars," is being resolved in California by a shift to phonics.

Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrates an article indicating that California's economy could soon become the 4th largest in the world. But he ignores another report that new stock issuances in the state's high-tech industry have plummeted.

A battle over a 27-story high-rise residential project in downtown San Francisco could become a statewide political issue.

Federal officials are warning California and other states that use Colorado River water to sharply reduce diversions or the government will act unilaterally. California would take the biggest hit.