election 2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 1 is the latest milestone in California’s long struggle to address mental illness. It would allocate new funding for housing and treatment facilities, aiming to address a crisis that plays out on city streets.

Democrats Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey face off in their third and final televised debate in the U.S. Senate primary. California voters have two more weeks to turn in their ballots.

California's efforts to care for the mentally ill date back to its admission as a state in 1850. The latest wrinkle is Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom's overhaul of mental health services.

The Democratic U.S. representative from Orange County is trying to get into the top two in California's U.S. Senate primary. In a nearly hour-long interview with CalMatters, she talked about her philosophy and priorities.

Coalitions on opposite sides put out competing studies on the little-known Private Attorneys General Act, PAGA for short. A measure on the November ballot, at least for now, would repeal the law, which allows employees to file class-action lawsuits over some labor law violations.

The lawmaker from Fremont also tells CalMatters that Democrats can flip seats in California and retake control of Congress.

Monday's U.S. Senate race debate made clear just how important Republican candidate Steve Garvey is to frontrunner Adam Schiff.

The four top candidates discuss crime, housing, the Gaza war and more in the second televised debate for California’s U.S. Senate seat. The Democrats bash Donald Trump and defend Joe Biden, while Republican Steve Garvey won’t say who he plans to support.

The three leading Democrats in California's U.S. Senate race are rejecting campaign donations from corporate political action committees. But showing independence from Big Business isn’t that simple.

California voters are deciding the fate of Proposition 1, which appears on the March primary ballot. A mental health advocate says the proposal is a taxpayer giveaway to private facilities and will gut effective programs.