California Update 9/6/23

The California Department of Justice released a first-of-its-kind report that outlined pandemic trends in fatal shootings in the state…

Governor Gavin Newsom’s controversial mental health overhaul proposal has cleared another hurdle…

A proposal by Bay Area lawmakers to raise bridge tolls to avoid potential cuts to public transit has been shelved for the year…

A new study suggests that relatively modest financial efforts to prevent homelessness have been remarkably successful at keeping people off the streets…

California officials began paying closer attention to heat deaths in 2021, after the Los Angeles Times estimated that high temperatures had killed nearly 4,000 people between 2010 and 2019 — more than six times higher than official state figures…

It’s been nearly two months since California’s reparations task force finalized hundreds of policy recommendations, and state lawmakers have been largely silent on the issue…

Progressive Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price faces a burgeoning recall effort with a familiar script…

Undocumented Californians affected by winter storms and floods are slowly starting to receive money from a special relief program the state launched for them two months ago…

California is still far from its goal of thinning vegetation to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire on one million acres a year by 2025, according to a new tally that Governor Newsom’s administration released on Tuesday, 8/29…

Catastrophic fires have exploded in California and across the continent in recent years, burning down neighborhoods, ruining entire towns and exposing a fundamental problem…