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What does political polarization look like in the California Legislature? It looks like this chart.

The Legislature again has refused to require health insurers to more broadly cover infertility treatment. But an advancing bill would insist that insurers cover the cost of preserving fertility for cancer patients whose treatment endangers their ability to have children.  

With the passage of Friday's suspense file deadline, more bills were culled from lawmakers' 2019 wish list, or altered. Among them:  a push to make retail receipts electronic, an effort to encourage pets in homeless shelters and stricter rules for servicers of student loans.  

While Democrats push a new round of gun control bills, California gun rights advocates are fighting back in a more hospitable venue: the federal judiciary.

Under the new law, which takes effect January 1, police may use deadly force only when “necessary in defense of human life.”

Education officials hit pause on a high school ethnic studies plan after receiving thousands of suggestions and complaints. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom just expanded California's paid family leave law. Will you and your baby make the most of it?

The Varsity Blues college scandal has drawn attention to UC "admissions by exception." Some are athletes, some homeschoolers, some out-of-staters — and at most campuses, they're cloaked in secrecy. 

As bills that take aim at plastic waste make their way through California’s legislature, the damage they intend to fix already is rippling through the state’s recycling economy. On Monday, rePlanet, a major collector of beverage bottles and cans, shut its 284 collection centers in California, citing lower subsidies from the state as well as […]

California has released a draft of the new ethnic studies curriculum for high schools, and critics are asking: Does it lean too far left?