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The governor championed the ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana. The struggling legal cannabis industry is now calling on him to cut state taxes, but his office says the solution isn’t that simple.

California's environmental justice law is supposed to clean the air for 15 hot spot communities, home to almost 4 million people. But after more than 4 years and $1 billion, it’s still impossible to say whether it's worked.

Student housing in California is already tight and the state has big plans to expand enrollment at the University of California and the Cal States. A $5 billion proposal would give campuses loans at no interest to expand their housing stock.

A California single payer healthcare bill advanced out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, but a bigger vote could be next week.

In the latest episode of the California housing crisis podcast, new Assembly Housing Committee chairperson Buffy Wicks talks about her priorities.

Although state and federal rules require COVID tests to be free or covered by health insurance, people often have to pay hundreds of dollars upfront.

State public health officials project that in this California COVID surge, more than 70,000 will be hospitalized at the end of January.

California hospitals are struggling to keep up with increasing COVID cases at the same time they're facing staffing shortages.

An unusually high number of influential state legislators are retiring or running for higher office. The reasons include a combination of new electoral districts, term limits and political ambition.

A group of Democratic legislators on Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes.