California’s excise tax on legal weed is increasing, despite efforts to keep it lower to help the struggling industry. Lawmakers left it out of the state budget they passed Monday.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that studies have found that the prospect of getting caught deters crime. You think?

Residents of the Diablo Grande community in Central California have seemingly made a deal with the devil: they've voted to ...

The Education Code sets the maximum amount of bond debt — the capacity or “cap” — as a percentage of the assessed valuation of all properties within a district. For elementary and high school ...

The initiative is the latest effort by California lawmakers to move the needle on the federal policy of mass deportations.

His 1980 presidential campaign put the Libertarian Party on the map in a year rich in libertarian cultural clout.

The latest statistics from California show that crime in nearly every major crime category was down last year, despite ...

Planned Parenthood would lose federal Medicaid money under the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the U.S. Senate Tuesday, a ...

News Local government Brown promises something ‘better than Prop 1’ as Spokane homeless camping proposal faces setback Sun., June 22, 2025 Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown, flanked by Councilmen Zack ...

Proposition 187, the Save Our State initiative, would have barred undocumented immigrants across California from using public schools, taxpayer-funded social services and non-emergency medical care.

Following weeks of anticipation over final vote tallies, California's $6.38 billion measure for mental health and homelessness services passed with a razor-thin margin, according to the Associated ...