Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...

Education will remain mostly shielded from the pain of weak projected state revenues in a 2025-26 budget compromise between ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the ...

After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland receives a copy of the housing legislation bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Monday, ...

California has a huge long-term debt to pay for the retirement health care benefits it promised to state workers. But today, ...

A state budget is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature, but it won’t take effect unless the Legislature makes ...

The anticipated return of thousands of California state workers to the office will not be happening as expected on July 1.

California lawmakers were under a tight deadline on Monday, after Gov. Gavin Newsom said his signature on the state's budget was contingent upon the passing of one of two pieces of legislation.

Bay Area residents share how California forest deregulation and park service cuts are affecting summer plans and access to ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, was poised Monday evening to ...