It may take state supreme courts and new legislation to find a cease-fire in the K-12 battles over parental rights and student privacy.
Despite the long delay to raise resort workers’ wages close to $20 an hour, their 2018 victory inspired labor collaboration driving current strikes.
Voluntary agreement on health and safety reforms hailed as progress but critics say it lacks teeth.
In many poor, largely Black Southern towns, residents say polluting wood pellet mills foul their air and forests.
Critics say Railroad Commission and politicians focus on business, not environmental protection.
The Hospice East Bay vote shows growing unionization at end-of-life care.
California closes loopholes on polluting wells, but still lets companies avoid capping idled wells.
A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.
The lowest income Californians are more likely to have lingering symptoms, and more likely to lose jobs.
State hydrogen projects promoted, killed; governor goes to Australian hydrogen conference with oil and gas reps.