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Google, oil companies and utilities helped push California lobbying to a record $540 million in 2024, up 10% from the year before.

Use CalMatters’ lookup tool to see if a career college or training program is licensed or has faced disciplinary actions.

California is suing the new Trump administration to protect birthright citizenship, stop the mass firing of federal workers and sustain funding for health and science research.

Look up how your sheriff responded to questions about their plans to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

The fires sweeping across Los Angeles County for the past week have burned more than 50,000 acres, an area roughly equivalent to 2,200 Alcatraz Islands or 500 Disneylands, or larger than Washington, D.C. An arid fall and winter has dried out vegetation after two wetter-than-average years, providing fuel as a windstorm, with hurricane-force gusts topping […]

Inland communities with big population booms will experience the most extreme heat days under climate change projections. The combination puts more people at risk — and many cities are unprepared.

The Park Fire just pushed California’s wildfire season into overdrive. It has grown rapidly since it started near Chico on July 24. Within two days, the blaze had consumed some 178,000 acres, then it doubled the next day. By Sunday, the fire had devoured more acres than all of this year’s other fires to date […]

The dam repairs would store more water and protect the public, but legislators and the governor, facing a huge deficit, cut $50 million.