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Health Net’s decision to cut assisted living benefits for roughly 3,500 low-income seniors could force some of them onto the streets, critics fear.

After wildfires, any recovery reform must put victims ahead of hedge funds, trial attorneys, insurance companies and other profiteers, a Creek Fire survivor says.

A CalMatters investigation found that many of the safeguards designed to protect against fiduciary abuse have been abandoned or ignored.

Gregory Oveross’ job was to take care of his elderly clients’ money. Instead, state prosecutors say, he and his partner stole $6 million from his clients’ accounts.  And then he left key parts of his reports to the courts blank, according to court records.  Over the last two decades, California has set up systems to…

A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.

California lawmakers are advancing an effort to preserve oil refinery safety rules that were designed to prevent fires, explosions and other catastrophes despite industry opposition.  The union-backed proposal, Senate Bill 966, would enshrine existing worker protections into state law as California regulators move to revise them in response to a legal settlement with the state’s…

El Tribunal Supremo de California desestimó la declaración de culpabilidad de una mujer que no comprendía que una condena pondría en peligro su estatus migratorio.

Las detenciones sin orden judicial han sido una característica clave de los esfuerzos del gobierno por deportar masivamente.

Budgets can gloss over key trends, such as how much government has grown in size and cost under Gov. Gavin Newsom. These sources reveal the data.