Could a ballot measure gut California’s film/TV tax credit?
SACRAMENTO — Eager to negotiate a measure off the 2024 ballot that would make it harder to raise taxes, unions are alleging the initiative would end…
Nevada, Arizona follow California’s abortion ballot measure strategy
LAS VEGAS — Nevada organizers last month celebrated a flood of voter signatures in support of placing a measure ensuring abortion rights on the November ballot.…
Column: Newsom gets moving on California’s homeowner insurance crisis
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed urgency legislation to expedite the hiking of homeowner insurance rates. It’s about time. Because the alternative for many is…
California’s bail system punishes the poor, and it’s time for the government to do something about it
Reporting from Sacramento — It’s a recurring nightmare: You get busted, perhaps for drunk driving and causing an injury accident, or maybe on a bum rap.…
Prop. 36 seeks to ease California’s three-strikes law
Dale Curtis Gaines has never been convicted of a violent offense, but his prison term of 27 years to life is longer than many sentences…
Some of California’s most outdoorsy people are moving to…Las Vegas?
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — For many, the lure of Las Vegas is the near complete immersion in a man-made world. Visitors bury themselves deep inside temperature-controlled…
Single-payer healthcare meets its fate again in the face of California’s massive budget deficit
SACRAMENTO — The latest attempt to bring a single-payer healthcare system to California failed in the state Legislature on Thursday, undercut by its steep price tag…
Why California’s proposed law on deadly police force isn’t as tough as it seems
Reporting from SACRAMENTO — In the aftermath of several controversial police shootings in California, activists and victims’ families have hoped their anguish would lead to action.…
California’s politics haven’t caught up with state’s housing costs
WASHINGTON — On the list of topics critical to California’s future, the cost of housing beats almost everything. Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter…
How Newsom plans to offset California’s $45-billion deficit
Faced with a $44.9-billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda…
Newsom touts California’s $11 billion in climate spending
Over the past decade, a signature California program that charges polluters for their planet-heating emissions has generated billions of dollars for state initiatives, and Gov.…
California’s attorney general has plans to sue Trump if he wins another term
WASHINGTON — California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said he and his staff have been reviewing former President Trump’s second-term agenda in detail to prepare a potential…
It’s time for a grand bargain to end California’s solar squabbling
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointees could vote next week on a widely criticized plan that climate activists, solar installers and labor unions say would pointlessly slow…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifies for California’s presidential ballot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for California's presidential ballot. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo April 30 (UPI) -- Independent presidential candidate…
A new national monument would protect a swath of California’s desert
Thomas Tortez Jr. leads a group across a gravelly wash in Painted Canyon, at the spot where his Cahuilla tribal ancestors once lived in a…
What to know about California’s newest state park
On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near the confluence of the Tuolumne…
Signatures roll in for tough-on-crime ballot measure to reform California’s Proposition 47
SACRAMENTO — A coalition backing a tough-on-crime statewide ballot initiative to toughen penalties for retail theft and some drug offenses on Thursday submitted more than 900,000…
Newsom called it a ‘gimmick.’ Now he’s using the trick to lower California’s massive deficit
SACRAMENTO — With a windfall of cash five years ago, Gov. Newsom said he was doing away with a state budget “gimmick” one of his predecessors…
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban was modeled on California’s
It was the era of the Wild West, when white men from back East were flooding into Arizona to reap the golden bounty of the…
California’s housing crisis is hitting Nevada. Could it help Trump?
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Christine Dyken had just returned home after picking up her grandson from school, and she was stressed. Dyken — who lives…