Marie Alvarado-Gil

Bills moving through the Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, RVs parked on city streets and homelessness prevention.

California's wild and wide-open primary election came to a close Tuesday with voters consolidating behind leading candidates for their parties.

Carl DeMaio, a divisive state lawmaker, continues to upset his colleagues as he works to amass influence through his political organization, Reform California, one of the state’s biggest conservative fundraising machines.

California Republicans who agreed to speak with CalMatters endorse President Donald Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles as necessary to save the state from its Democratic leadership.

Highly publicized immigration raids have rattled the community and prompted lawmakers to push for more laws protecting immigrants.

A 2016 penal reform ballot measure proposed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown had loopholes that eventually benefitted perpetrators of sex crimes. The Legislature recently voted to close one loophole that allowed notorious serial rapist Andrew Luster to be granted parole.