WhatMatters
Gig bill, African-American maternal health, and big money
Workers weigh in on gig economy bill. What's being done to improve African-American maternal health. Should striking workers get unemployment insurance?
San Diego
California Wildfires
Newsom’s new proposals on wildfire costs walk a political tightrope
Officials had to slap utilities for starting blazes—but not inflict undue financial damage or bail them out—and avoid punishing fire victims or further burdening electricity customers.
Newsletters
Wildfire liability, a budget deal, electric trucks and dead cows
Legislature feels heat on wildfire plan. CPUC, utilities prepare to square off at U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats leery of tax hikes.
Newsletters
Vaccines, soda, mental illness and an ice cream man-candidate
Vaccination fight heats up in Legislature. Efforts to curb soda use fall flat. San Diego DA calls for mental health reform
Newsletters
College cheating, UC immigration, drought ends and rent control returns
More college cheating scandal fallout, UC gives legal aid to undocumented students and their families, rent control returns and drought ends.
Housing
San Diego’s mayor explains why he became a “YIMBY”
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has a message for his fellow California Republicans when it comes to grappling with the state's housing crisis: Embrace more development.
Politics
What happens when the next big wildfire hits?
As political pressure mounts with every disaster, California is scrambling to prepare for the coming fire season, from firefighting to utilities to the law.
Economy
Will PG&E customers pay more in bankruptcy? Not if state watchdog can stop it
PG&E customers shouldn't have to foot the bankruptcy bill if the utility is responsible for deadly California wildfires, says a state watchdog.
Environment
Power companies must do more to fireproof their equipment, but it won’t be cheap—and customers may pay
California's increasingly dire blazes have brought a reckoning over the role of power equipment in starting wildfires.
Homelessness
Big city mayors to California lawmakers on homelessness: Go bold
The mayors of Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland and Sacramento called for bold state action to remedy homelessness, including reviving an affordable housing funding source and making it easier to build shelters.