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Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight LocalCalifornia’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline. The oil company could collect billions in public incentives, while environmentalists and oil companies argue about how far the rules should go. -
Illustration by Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters; iStockBrain sensors are advancing, and California companies, lawmakers and unions are jockeying to shape how the resulting data can be used.
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Medi-Cal cuts will strain hospitals already operating at a loss. The fallout: fewer services and higher costs for the privately insured too. -
The Alturas Indian Rancheria has only a handful of members but has taken in millions of dollars as years of lawsuits, allegations and shifting alliances divide the Northern California tribe. -
Lawmakers could tackle climate money, wildfires and California Forever before they adjourn for the year and hit the campaign trail. -
Advocates are pushing for a survivor justice law like those in other states, but a two-thirds legislative majority presents a major hurdle -
Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment removed from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September. -
California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. One expert says the crisis is barely known — even though it could reshape half the state’s forests by 2071. -
The Trump administration is overhauling the U.S. Endangered Species Act. But that hasn’t changed Oregon’s conservation plans, at least not yet. -
Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears. -
Trump administration threatened to withhold millions in transportation funds if states didn’t comply with new commercial driver’s license rule. -
The lone minor-party nominee currently headed to the ballot could siphon votes from Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek. -
In 2023 California allocated $500 million in grants for schools to hire literacy coaches and take other steps to boost reading skills. -
Programs like SNAP and Medicaid are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts. It’s unclear how state leaders will fill the gap.
