The 2025 federal budget law changed Medicaid eligibility, but implementation doesn’t start till 2027.

The mayor of Montague, California was cleared of allegations made against him in a civil grand jury report earlier this year.

New York’s beloved Strand Bookstore will pay back nearly $1.5 million after improperly applying for and receiving a pandemic-era small business loan even though it wasn’t eligible, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted death sentences for 548 state prisoners, saying “state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values.” Victims rights advocates criticized his decision.

Josephine County projects cutting jail capacity by more than half and ending juvenile detention operations without renewed funding. The levy expires in June.

Incumbent Gabe Fabrizio and challenger Mike Kinnaird offered competing approaches to jail capacity and law enforcement staffing.

A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration demand that California set aside and not count the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters, setting the stage for a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The shooting occurred at the site of vandalized businesses.

Federal officials delivered a subpoena to Orange County Registrar of Voters’s office on Thursday.

Twenty-five states, including Oregon and California, plus the District of Columbia sued over the new rule, saying it would make it harder for blind and seriously ill people to stay insured.

The City of Coos Bay acknowledged a federal immigration enforcement action within city limits. A local coalition says a rapid community response connected the detained man’s family with legal help.

Several businesses had shattered windows near the shooting scene on A Street. Neither the man shot nor the Ashland officer has been publicly identified.