The state is poised to embark on an ambitious, complex effort to cover the unpaid rent of low-income renters who struggled during the pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom promised business as usual on Tuesday, but there could be exceptions to everyday life returning to normal. Here are questions and answers to clear up some of the confusion.

Another decision next week could change California mask rules again, offering clarity or even more confusion for employers.

Newsom proposes to add $1.1 billion annually to the formula to enable those districts to hire more staff for "concentration" school districts, where more than 2 million low-income children and English learners are enrolled.

So far, political fundraisers have set up six campaign committees to spend on either side of the still-unofficial recall election.

Rain fall has decreased, so the region faces looming threats of drought, which increases threats of wildfires, which impact air quality. 

Despite decades of judgements and legislation, accounts of wage theft continue to run rampant in Santa Clara County, new data show. 

The effort to oust the Democratic governor began before the year-long pandemic upended life in California, driven by conservative activists.

A look back at some of the events—big and small—that shaped the past 12 months of tumult during the pandemic.

The initiative has turned 16,000 hotel and motel rooms in 55 counties and tribal areas into housing for 22,300 people.

Housing advocates have been sounding the alarm on what they say will be an unparalleled wave of evictions early next year.

As California AG Xavier Becerra joins Joe Biden’s cabinet as head of Health and Human Services, locals are looking ahead.

Voters narrowly defeated Proposition 15, the tax measure that aimed to eliminate decades-long protections for commercial properties.

The order pre-empts the state’s stay-at-home order, which Gov. Gavin Newsom formally announced Thursday, as hospitalizations surge.

Local businesses that want to reopen with restrictions have less than a week to file new paperwork with public health officials.

The new increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in California ended a downward trend across the state and jolted public officials.