CALmatters is a Sacramento-based nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. It works with more than 130 media partners throughout the state that have long, deep relationships with their local audiences, including Embarcadero Media (publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly, Mountain View Voice, Pleasanton Weekly and The Almanac in Menlo Park and their websites.)
Here are the most recent stories reported by CALmatters' team of journalists:
Migrant Education programs serve students whose parents work in California’s agricultural fields, dairies, fisheries and timberlands.
Wed, Jul 23, 2025 5:30 amOnly a handful of Planned Parenthood organizations will continue to receive money from the federal government. None of them are in California.
Wed, Jul 23, 2025 5:30 amState Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, the daughter of immigrants, has urged Trump and other fellow Republicans to consider work permits for undocumented worked considered essential workers.
Wed, Jul 23, 2025 5:30 amCalifornia has used incarcerated firefighters since 1915 to battle wildfires. But we don't pay them, protect them or treat them like heroes. Lawmakers could change that.
Wed, Jul 23, 2025 5:30 amA deaf immigrant who sought asylum at the California-Mexico border was released from detention after a federal judge ordered authorities to provide him with an interpreter.
Tue, Jul 22, 2025 4:27 pmThe nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis with more people wanting help than can get it. That tension is reflected in a dispute playing out in the rural Sierra foothills between an addiction treatment center and California’s second largest health insurer. As CalMatters’ Jocelyn Wiener and Byrhonda Lyons explain, in June […]
Tue, Jul 22, 2025 6:00 amThe letter from Anthem landed on Bernadette Cattaneo’s desk on a sunny day in June 2023. Beginning later that summer, it said, the addiction treatment facility she ran in the rural Sierra foothills would no longer be included in several of the insurance company’s networks. Confused, she read it again. The move could bankrupt The […]
Tue, Jul 22, 2025 5:35 amThe GOP budget bill made significant changes to Covered California, which experts and insurers say will increase out-of-pocket costs for consumers.
Tue, Jul 22, 2025 5:30 amWater bills are climbing as utilities clean up a chemical made infamous in “Erin Brockovich.” Should lawmakers give them cover from lawsuits while work continues?
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