Amendments weaken a bill to give the state attorney general more power to stop takeovers that raise costs and cut care.
Convicted for two killings he didn’t commit, Vasquez hopes legal reforms will lead to his freedom after 18 years behind bars.
A new California initiative may make a real difference in reducing the mountain of plastic refuse.
State investigations raise concerns about human rights abuses in federal detention facilities.
A UCLA report says the state’s money bail system takes “tens of millions of dollars annually in cash and assets from some of L.A.’s most economically vulnerable persons, families and communities.”
A new bill awaiting Governor Jerry Brown’s signature could use the state’s massive purchasing power as the world’s sixth largest economy to address greenhouse gas emissions far beyond its borders.