California ’s population climbed above 39.5 million in 2024, marking the second year of growth following a string of declines ...

But it was a self-inflicted wound. All of California’s Republicans voted in favor of the stripped-down budget bill, which essentially was a vote knocking out the very grants they lobbied to put in the ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...