California has an opportunity to leverage surplus and stimulus funds to bridge income inequality. Our dashboard from the California Divide team tracks whether the state can turn the tide.

The air board unanimously adopted a rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases from ride-hailing companies. The big question is: Who will pay for the cleaner vehicles?

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend $2 billion creating a program to give 3.8 million low-income students at least $500 as college savings. Some critics call it redundant. Others say start it at birth.

El gobernador Gavin Newsom quiere gastar $2 mil millones en la creación de un programa para dar a 3.8 millones de estudiantes de bajos ingresos al menos $500 como ahorros para la universidad. Algunos críticos lo llaman redundante. Otros dicen que deben comenzar desde el nacimiento.

Los Ángeles y las ciudades de California están utilizando loterías para distribuir asistencia de emergencia para el alquiler. Mientras algunos inquilinos se preocupan por la equidad, los expertos dicen que puede ser la forma más equitativa de distribuir la asistencia de emergencia, ya que el gobernador Gavin Newsom propone duplicar la ayuda estatal.

La junta aérea considerará reducir los gases de efecto invernadero de las empresas de transporte. La gran pregunta es: ¿Quién pagará los vehículos más limpios?

Gov. Gavin Newsom likely faces a recall election, something California introduced to U.S. politics more than a century ago.

June 15 will be a big day for California. That’s when the state will ease its mask mandate to allow fully vaccinated people to forgo face coverings in most places, Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s health and human services secretary, said Monday. It’s also when California will lift capacity limits on businesses, permitting the state […]

Less than half of eligible people in 45 of the state’s 58 counties have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Marin and Alpine rank at the top with 69%, while Lassen, Mariposa and Kings are at the bottom with 25% or less.

With most of the state gripped by extreme dryness, some conditions are better, some worse, than the last record-breaking drought. Over-pumping of wells hasn’t stopped. But urban residents haven’t lapsed back into water-wasting lifestyles.