7+ hour, 47+ min ago   (784+ words) This story originally appeared in The Center Square. California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has announced $34.9 million in grants to nonprofits and labor unions that will help “at-risk” or undocumented workers understand their rights, including hundreds of thousands of dollars…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1116+ words) This article first appeared in EdSource. Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (921+ words) California lawmakers wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without exposing more than a million people to immigration and law enforcement agencies?...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (404+ words) Just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump a procedural win in his effort to limit mail-in voting, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new lawsuit intended to protect the state’s power over how elections are administered....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (495+ words) This story was originally published by Capitol Weekly. Xavier Becerra outraised his Republican opponent for governor by more than 2-to-1 in donations of $1,000 or more during the first half of August, as Sacramento’s inside players continued betting heavily on the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (844+ words) California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have joined a call to demand financial regulators restrict prediction market activity on wildfires, citing concerns that the bets could incentivize arson or other destructive interventions. “Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (915+ words) For six years, Californians have been able to shake up a craft cocktail at home using alcohol delivered to their doorstep. Now, it’s last call for the distillery deliveries, unless lawmakers intervene by the end of this month. That’s unlikely,…...