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We know two of California’s top public universities are paying tens of millions of dollars a year to student athletes, and now CalMatters is suing to find out the details of how taxpayer dollars are being spent. As CalMatters’ Adam Echelman explains, in 2021 California allowed college athletes to profit off their own name, image…

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In 2026Q2, 60.1% of online views from the 100 largest metros went to out-of-market homes—up from 48.2% in 2019Q2, signaling a lingering structural shift in demand.

The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed national home price growth picking up further through June, with the U.S. National Index rising 1.5% year over year, up from a revised 1.2% gain in May.

Universities have refused to share information about the money they’re giving student athletes. CalMatters is suing UCLA and UC Berkeley for the data and sharing what we know so far, including the contracts universities sign with students and details about some of these payments.

Un nuevo informe del Departamento de Justicia de California se suma a un patrón preocupante documentado en informes anteriores de The Trace.

California counties and school districts have been flooded since 2019 with lawsuits from people who say they were sexually abused as children in schools, foster care and juvenile detention facilities. State lawmakers are struggling to balance counties’ and schools’ financial health with the incalculable cost of survivors’ trauma.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was at the California Supreme Court Monday as his attorney argued he acted within his authority in seizing 650,000 ballots.

California has fostered programs that move students from classroom to careers, but employers need regional help navigating them, and the young people in them need to be paid, a nonprofit executive says.

Full suppression by 10 a.m. has not been reinstated under Trump but political pressure remains