A final budget deal reached last week relies largely on AI revenue projections and new taxes to delay social service cuts and shrink future deficits.
The new research and teaching center has received more than $35 million in donations with a fundraising goal of $50 million.
The new state budget includes $55 million for the DMV to build a data-sharing system to bring California into compliance with the federal REAL ID law.
The budget cut $5.5 million for school libraries, which pays online fees for student research materials in public schools across the state.
County officials said the budget closes a $91 million deficit without layoffs or major service reductions.
Pay for commercial fishermen across the West Coast has plummeted over the last decade.
Family members and elected officials came together for a small private ceremony to mark the event on Monday.
Californians will vote on 14 statewide ballot measures on environment, taxation, election, housing, and healthcare.
A conversation with the UC Berkeley authors of “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide.”
In 2025, the department reported deploying drones on 170 occasions, after deploying such equipment 145 times in 2024.
The protest came just before the Oakland City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee was set to vote on its annual housing action plan.
California Forever is lobbying state leaders to rush through a massive shipbuilding deal that would fast-track its development after years of local opposition.
The system isn’t an earthquake prediction service, rather it uses ground and satellite sensors to detect fault movement in real time.
The tours will depart from the Oakland Ferry Terminal in Jack London Square on one Friday evening each month.