California remained the world’s fourth-largest economy by a narrow margin as 2025 started.

The state's ambitious Climate Superfund legislation would hold fossil fuel companies liable for emissions, but continues to face fierce opposition.

California's Latino population could bear the brunt of SNAP changes due to high rates of food insecurity and other factors.

In 1970, when a nearly unanimous Congress approved sweeping changes strengthening federal air pollution laws, one proviso allowed California in many cases to craft its own rules — a recognition of ...

California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday passed major changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in what ...

Among the report’s central findings are that there are 2.28 million immigrants in California without protected legal status ...

I n a bold move to improve the economic landscape for its workforce, California is set to implement a substantial increase in the minimum wage starting January 2025. This change is designed to ...

Maybe it’s the fires, but the news seems filled with California apocalypse stories. One San Francisco based columnist recently wrote, “I’m starting to suspect we’re over.” I beg to ...

California not only leads the nation in the fight against climate change — in some ways it leads the world. The Golden State has the world’s second least carbon-intensive economy, according to ...

All told, California can expect to lose 1 percent of its annual economic output for every 1-degree Celsius increase in average temperature, said co-author James Rising, also of UC Berkeley.

In 2018, the California’s ocean economy directly employed more than 660,000 workers and supported another 375,000 through indirect and induced activity.