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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

Four firefighters, two helicopter pilots and a contractor bulldozing a fireline have died in Colorado, Utah and Oregon this year. Fast-moving fires have burned millions of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the West. California, which is having an unusually quiet fire summer, has deployed engines and crews to fight fires raging…

Hotter, wilder and more destructive fires in America’s dry West are forcing a reckoning in how to manage the blazes, prompting a cascade of disagreements between the Trump administration and some states. Reporters from half a dozen newsrooms spanning six states, including Rachel Becker of CalMatters, collaborated on two stories that unpack the central tension…

A new report from the California Department of Justice adds to concerning pattern documented in previous reporting by The Trace.

El proyecto de ley contaba con un amplio apoyo, pero el comité de la senadora Sabrina Cervantes lo desmanteló repentinamente sin apenas dar explicaciones.

Community clinics across California do not meet the arbitrary standards Proposition 44 would create, jeopardizing healthcare services statewide, a physician argues.

Proposition 44 will hold community health centers accountable for the public dollars they receive, argues a social worker.