Dan Walters | Piedmont Exedra

Commentary | As LA fires rage, Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass are targets in the blame game

Newsom and Bass couldn't have prevented wind-propelled flames from igniting homes and businesses around the city.

Chevron is California's oldest and most prominent petroleum company.

A recent Supreme Court ruling could curtail misuse of the California Environmental Quality Act by those who oppose development.

Public school funding is the largest chunk of California's state budget, and for the past half-century it has been its most contentious element.

Insights into why a wealthy South Bay community had its housing element decertified, after it had been approved only months before.

A decades-long debate over the fate of Oakland's Interstate 980 freeway may be nearing an end as political figures call for its demolition.

California's public pension system faces a huge unfunded debt but dealing with it involves increasing risk.

Conflicting Superior Court decisions have created uncertainty over the 2/3 vote requirement for some local tax increases.

Sponsors of a 2020 ballot measure to increase property taxes on commercial real estate withdrew it this week and launched a revised version.

LA thought local voters would approve a hefty tax increase for the schools, since the burden would fall largely on large property owners. Oops.