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Por cuarto año consecutivo, los legisladores de California están sopesando si otorgar a los delincuentes violentos el derecho legal a alegar abusos en su defensa legal.

A new California Supreme Court ruling upholds limits on how many vacation hours government workers can cash out and apply toward the pension formulas.

Building one home on each empty lot listed for sale on Zillow would reduce the national housing deficit to 4.44 million homes. The post More Than 300,000 Empty Lots For Sale Could Close America’s Housing Shortage by 6% appeared first on Zillow Research.

Rent growth accelerated. And yet, the share of listings with a concession remains elevated. The post Rent Went Up But So Did the Freebies (June Rent Report) appeared first on Zillow Research.

There were 628,000 (SAAR) new single-family home sales nationwide in June. That’s 1.6% above the revised May rate of 618,000. Sales of newly built homes were 5.6% below the June 2025 estimate, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median price of new houses sold was $398,300, down 2.7% from a year ago. The average…

Tuolumne County, CA, in the Yosemite foothills, lost more residents than any other fire-prone U.S. county in 2025. It was followed closely by Sutter County, also in rural Northern California. Just one-third of the country’s 308 fire-prone counties lost more residents than they gained, while the other two-thirds gained population.  Pinal County, AZ, located between…

In a surprising role reversal, at least in image, the traditionally plodding L.A. County government looks more urgent and creative than L.A. City Hall.

California spends tens of millions dollars every year paying prison employees to look for smoke and fire. Replacing fire alarms costs much more.

For the fourth year in a row, California lawmakers are weighing whether to give violent criminals the legal right to cite abuse in their legal defense.

Do you smell smoke? Inside California prisons, there are people assigned to do just that. As CalMatters’ Cayla Mihalovich explains, California’s 31 prisons have outdated, malfunctioning or inoperable fire alarm systems. But replacing all those systems, which include various detection devices, control panels and network connections, would cost $1.5 billion. To get around shelling out…