State GovernmentSacramento lawmaker pauses proposal for new homelessness agency after ‘blindsiding’ local leadersJuly 18, 2025 | Tony RodriguezDemocratic State Senator Angelique Ashby put a bill on hold this week, after city leaders said they wanted to be included in her proposal to form a regional housing agency to better manage homelessness funding.
Housing and HomelessnessCalifornia, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agencyJuly 14, 2025Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart, the reorg is supposed to simplify the state’s snarled affordable housing financing system.
State GovernmentLawmakers call for transparency from insurance companies using drone imagesJuly 10, 2025 | Chris FeltsProperty owners have often had their policies canceled or not renewed following insurance companies' use of drone and satellite images to determine the condition of property without their knowledge. AB 75 looks to change that.
State GovernmentCal Fire rolled out an AI chatbot. Don’t ask it about evacuation ordersJuly 9, 2025The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes.
Sacramento RegionNo, gas prices aren’t jumping 65 cents. But they are risingJuly 9, 2025 | Gerardo ZavalaGas prices are rising, but they’re not hitting the skyrocketing high costs some are estimating. A UC Berkeley energy economist explains why certain estimates are unrealistic.
State GovernmentTrump administration sues California over transgender athlete policiesJuly 9, 2025President Donald Trump’s administration has sued the California Department of Education for allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.
State Government‘This tax could kill this industry.’ California cannabis operators brace for increaseJuly 1, 2025California’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.
State GovernmentThey were convicted of killing with their cars. No one told the DMV.June 25, 2025A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the DMV, prompting officials to belatedly take many drivers’ licenses.
EducationTrump administration threatens cuts to California program over references to gender identityJune 23, 2025 | Megan MyscofskiThe program covers a broad range of topics and reaches a small segment of California’s students.
ImmigrationSacramento lawmaker demanding answers for courthouse shutdown, immigration detainmentsJune 20, 2025 | Vicki Gonzalez | Sarit LaschinskyThe near-total shutdown of the John E. Moss Federal Building in downtown Sacramento last week has raised concerns from a Sacramento lawmaker. Assemblymember Maggy Krell has filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
