Business

A loophole in federal law lets food companies self-certify that a new food ingredient is safe, instead of the FDA conducting safety oversight.

The federal Local Food Purchase Assistance cooperative agreement program pays for locally grown food for feeding programs, such as food banks. It's ending two years early.

Whether a food is deemed hot or cold determines if it's subject to CA sales tax. It's not as simple as it sounds, though.

Lawmakers discussed bills that allow lawsuits against business monopolies and businesses that affect climate change.

Strength in the technology sector is masking California's weakness. Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half.

UC - Santa Cruz found fewer jobs and worker hours, but more order kiosks, mobile apps and AI drive-through ordering systems at CA eateries.

The tribes with casinos guard their gambling dominance with political clout gained from lavish contributions to political campaigns.

Bringing back — but narrowly tailoring — tax-increment financing could ensure housing gets built at the right price, in the right places.

This year's contests of businesses versus liberal groups include corporate and wealth tax proposals and requirements for greenhouse gas emission reports.

California trucks much of its organic waste to landfills instead of recyclers, largely because of an exclusive franchise hauling system.