By Dan Walters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When James Marshall discovered traces of gold in the American River in 1848, he ignited ...
By Ben Christopher and Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 1994, a 26-year-old Alex Padilla, sporting a newly minted engi...
Voters Demanded Change with Prop. 36; Legislature Offers Crumbs SACRAMENTO — Sen. Megan Dahle, R-Bieber, issued the following statement today after voting No on the majority party’s budget bill:...
Awarded projects continue CAL FIRE’s commitment to restoring California’s forest health and resiliency Sacramento – The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE...
Sacramento, CA – California’s gray wolf population has grown with three new packs—Tunnison, Ash Pan, and Ishi—joining seven existing packs, totaling ten statewide. Announced by Axel Hunnicutt of the C...
From CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu: In the state Legislature, an open rebellion sometimes does wonders. Two weeks ago, Assemblymember Maggy Krell, a first-year Sacramento Democrat, publi...
Online tool is designed to help livestock producers better understand the location of wolves in order to protect their herds The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced today the r...
SACRAMENTO — On Thursday in the Assembly, Democrats shut down an attempt to protect 16- and 17-year-olds and let the law punish the customers who would buy teenagers for sex. “I often disagree w...
By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters Lobbying groups spent more than half a billion dollars to influence the state government in 2024, the most ever, according to a CalMatters analysis of data recently fil...
Sacramento, CA — The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has approved a severely limited recreational ocean salmon fishing season for California in 2025, structured to ensure “negligible i...




