Dan Walters

The closure of California's public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic had a hugely negative impact on children's educations that will reverberate for decades.

Once again, California voters are being asked to raise income taxes on the state's most affluent taxpayers, but this time around the dynamics are different and the outcome less certain.

A newly signed law to regulate wages and working conditions in fast food restaurants is being challenged by the industry via a ballot measure.

As California struggles to close its huge shortage of housing, two new superagencies, one for the San Francisco Bay Area, the other for Los Angeles County, are experiments aimed at breaking the housing logjam.

New legislation accelerates California's self-mandate to convert to a carbon-free electrical grid by 2045. But can California actually do it?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom must sign or reject a bill that would make it easier for the United Farm Workers Union to organize farmers' employees and is feeling the political heat.

California unions have something to celebrate on Labor Day, including big wins in the just-concluded legislative session.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom denounces two Republican governors as "bullies" but that may be the pot calling the kettle black.

The latest employment data reveal that after 28 months, California has finally recovered the millions of private sector jobs it lost during the COVID=19 recession.

As California struggles to keep the lights burning, compromise legislation will, if enacted, keep the state's only remaining nuclear power plant in operation.