Economy

California tax revenue is soaring thanks to tech stocks. But Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing more cuts, warning that the boom won't last and Trump cuts will hit the state hard.

A massive hack of education platform Canvas hit California especially hard. What happens next?

Should California pension funds invest in fossil fuels? How about Tesla and Palantir? Or companies with anti-union records? Those debates are playing out at CalPERS and CalSTRS.

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how […]

The Insurance Department found hundreds of violations by State Farm and calls for millions of dollars in penalties and a possible suspension.

Small retailers — facing higher costs, uncertainty from tariffs and now rising fuel and shipping prices — wonder how long they can survive.

Advocates say 1 million unauthorized immigrants with California driver's licenses are at risk under a state plan to share license information to a national database.

CalMatters interviewed five leading candidates who want to regulate one of the world’s biggest insurance markets. Here’s what they said.

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

A new lawsuit alleges Uber is violating California’s rideshare law and should not be allowed to assert its drivers are independent contractors.