California remained the world’s fourth-largest economy by a narrow margin as 2025 started.

In California, where SNAP is administered as CalFresh, those reductions could threaten a vital resource that supported five ...

In 1970, when a nearly unanimous Congress approved sweeping changes strengthening federal air pollution laws, one proviso allowed California in many cases to craft its own rules — a recognition of ...

Democrats are beginning to dial back some of their signature environmental policies in response to their mounting economic ...

Between an increasingly influential union and a new state housing agency, one of California’s biggest crises is getting a shakeup.

California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday passed major changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in what ...

A study by a Bay Area think tank suggests California’s key industries would suffer without undocumented immigrant workers.

Among the report’s central findings are that there are 2.28 million immigrants in California without protected legal status ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

Two California bills – one signed, another on the way – hope to remake the state's film incentive program with far more money ...

Washington, D.C. will raise its minimum by 45 cents to $17.95 an hour due to an automatic inflation adjustment, impacting an ...

Trump’s efforts to constrain immigration during his first term played out in a similar fashion; by 2019, the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.5%, its lowest level since 1969, with earnings up 3.5% ...