At $6 a gallon, California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the nation. Gasoline supplies look stable for the next six weeks but are uncertain after that as California leans more on imports.
After the sudden death of U.S. Rep Doug LaMalfa, a CalMatters reporter who covered him for 20 years reflects on his life and legacy.
California is under pressure to embrace more temporary homeless shelters and programs that require sobriety, at the potential expense of long-term housing.
Teachers have come under scrutiny for speech made online and in classrooms
The Redding area bus system sees local partnerships as a way to expand services and programs to the community. One of those partnerships has resulted in free rides to libraries, book exchange baskets on local buses, and a little free library at the downtown Redding transit station.
Experts say the executive order threatening to withhold funding from schools doesn’t have much bearing on California schools — for now.
The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.
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