Education officials will begin more rigorous screening of financial aid applicants, citing instances of fraud at California’s community colleges.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

CalMatters’ third Emmy award honored accountability journalism that, as one reporter described, “I could not have done” without Digital Democracy.

Despite the curfew, people are still coming to downtown LA for protests against the Trump administration's immigration ...

Fear of immigration raids is driving patients to cancel health care. A third of medical appointments and half of dental ...

Legislators, cutting $3.5 billion in funding, endorsed a freeze on state health care for undocumented immigrants but want ...

The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino's Kern County sweep, which a federal judge ...

LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to ...

Many undocumented immigrants have long feared that their Medi-Cal data would be used against them. Newsom calls it "an abuse.

Alex Padilla is the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. FBI agents handcuffed him after he interrupted a ...

Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as ...