California's deficit is projected to reach nearly $18 billion next year, as spending is expected to offset, if not eclipse, ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his revised budget proposal for 2023-24 during a press briefing at the state Natural Resources Agency in Sacramento on May 12, 2023. Courtesy Rahul Lal/CalMatters. This time ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that allows the state to keep 100% of taxes on premiums generated by surplus lines insurers domiciled in California. That move largely follows ...

Gavin Newsom has signed two laws to fast-track low-income housing in California, a state that makes up almost a third of America’s homeless population. One of the signed laws will allow California ...

California is the first state to implement free school lunch, at a cost of $54 million next school year, made possible by the state's budget surplus.

This time last year, there was excitement and possibility over how to spend a record $97.5 billion budget surplus, a shocking figure coming at the end of a bruising COVID-19 pandemic. But this year, ...