Capturing and storing carbon underground is a big part of California’s efforts to tackle climate change but opponents say it ...

Kaiser Permanente is steering patients to other providers during a strike by Southern California mental health workers.

Lawmakers who are sick or absent can miss hundreds of votes in the California Legislature — and they’re all counted as "no." ...

Some California Assemblymembers missed at least a quarter of votes due to illness or family matters. But on bill votes, absence is the same as a “no.” ...

Democrats are calling out Republicans on California abortion rights in swing districts that could decide control of Congress.

A plan by California regulators overseeing the long-delayed cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab fails to fully address soil contamination.

One of the most intimate VotingMatters events last week was at Bookshop Santa Cruz, an independently owned bookstore, and co-hosted with Lookout Santa Cruz. At the event, community organizers made new ...

Prop. 36 pledges to send more people convicted of drug possession to treatment instead of prison. Behavioral health directors say that’s easier said than done with workforce shortages across the state ...

CalMatters fact checked the top claims both sides of Proposition 33 have made in California’s latest battle over rent control ...

In key congressional districts for the California election, candidates are being outspent by independent groups.

Party and other political committees are spending more than the candidates in key congressional election races.

Extrapolating from a report on Los Angeles' homeless population, it could cost California $10 billion each of 10 years to fix homelessness.