Dan Walters

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.

California will ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035, but the conversion to battery-powered vehicles poses numerous unresolved issues.

The involvement of California's Native American tribes in high-stakes political battles this year is the latest chapter in their amazing rise from slaughter and poverty into owners of a major industry.