Conventional housing wisdom dictates that if you can’t afford Los Angeles or New York City, try Austin or Atlanta. For years, ...

About 101,500 new housing units were permitted statewide last year, a 9% drop from the previous year and the state’s lowest ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a number of housing reforms to foster housing production and infrastructure statewide ...

Red tape in a strict 1970 law had impeded building in California. The new laws exempt projects from lengthy reviews.

California's environmental law sees minor adjustments, but experts say the changes fall short of meaningful reform for the ...

A sweeping reform to the California Environmental Quality Act has divided environmentalists and climate advocates.

California officials tweaked one of America’s most draconian environmental laws, but the adjustments will do little to ...

The California Department of Insurance has commissioned a task force to develop a first-in-the-nation smoke damage standard that could be the blueprint for a national standard.

The state's fiscal year begins July 1. As California faces a shortfall in the billions, here's a look at what the budget ...

California and other states are suing the Trump administration over plans to cut billions of dollars in grants designed to make states more resilient to infectious disease.

But don’t let the modest, 0.6% rebound fool you: California is in a new era of slow population growth at best. The go-go growth that the state was long accustomed to isn’t coming back soon.