A plan to create a secretive infrastructure entity glided through the state Senate. Lawmakers are now backtracking after transparency advocates sounded the alarm.

The ongoing housing shortage is contributing to the increase in homeless students, but schools are also doing a better job of identifying them.

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It's moving toward paying them minimum wage for their work in emergencies.

The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms.

Congress already approved the education funding, which pays for migrant education, after school programs and other services.

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation that had previously ...

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