California Senate

Low-income patients who need specialized cancer treatment often struggle to get it. Advocates say a new law is a small step toward improving services for those patients.

The importance of protecting our teens from harmfully early school start times has not changed and has never been more urgent.

It’s an old script with an all-too-familiar storyline: The unqualified man benefits from the political machine, bypassing the qualified woman.

Most California public companies had at least one woman on their board by 2020, but two lawsuits are challenging the law.

SB 28 would provide two important tools to force transparency and ensure accountability from broadband internet providers.

SB 660 would help ensure that voters aren’t subjected to deception and duplicity that generate distrust in direct democracy.

Lawmakers say they'll take no action this year on a bill requiring nursing home owners and operators to get state approval before they acquire, operate or manage a nursing home.

Sen. James Mills, personified a long-gone era of cordiality and bipartisanship in the California state Senate.

This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom will unveil a pilot program to help counties, cities and other entities schedule vaccine appointments, I’ve exclusively learned. The move, which comes sooner than expected, underscores the state’s rush to streamline a chaotic rollout that has resulted in Californians developing their own online platforms to centralize and decipher a dizzying […]

Never has so much of California burned. And as powerful winds continue to blast the state, the likelihood of historic fires metastasizing and others exploding looms large for overworked firefighters and exhausted residents. In Southern California, strong Santa Ana winds could push the Bobcat fire toward homes in foothill communities. The fire, which is currently […]