Alberto M. Carvalho is superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest school district. During his 14-year tenure as superintendent of Miami-Dade County ...

Daniel Mountjoy is the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation. He leads the organization’s water program to promote new approaches to conserve and replenish groundwater supplies ...

Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero is the 29th Chief Justice of California, making history as the first Latina to serve in this role. When she joined the California Supreme Court as an associate justice ...

Kassy Chauhan is the executive officer of the North Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA), where she has helped finalize and submit the groundwater sustainability plan to the California ...

Only a small number of mailed ballots are rejected for arriving late, but rejection rates have been rising in recent ...

The federal government has been a key partner in California’s water management efforts for decades. From weather forecasting and flood management to water supply, state and federal agencies have had ...

Starting in June 2026, revamped federal rules under HR1 (2025) impose work and community engagement requirements on a broader group of working-age adults with CalFresh—known federally as the ...

California’s housing crisis is usually measured in dollars: half-million-dollar starter homes and housing costs that eat up half a paycheck. But there’s another way to see the crisis—in years.

This interactive shows poverty trends from 2011 through 2024 across demographic groups and regions in California, according to the California Poverty Measure (CPM). It shows trends by age, education, ...

The recent California primary was one for the history books, featuring new congressional districts drawn for partisan effect and the prospect of two Republicans running for governor in the fall. In ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2026—Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton sit atop a crowded field of gubernatorial candidates heading into next week’s primary election. Most likely voters ...

California public schools are in the midst of a long-running trend of declining enrollment. Enrollment fell this past year by nearly 75,000 students. Since 2015–16, enrollment has dropped in all but ...