Lawmakers return to Sacramento this week. Here's how they make decisions that affect you.

A few hundred bills reached the end of their run Friday in the California legislature. The culling of legislation is part of an opaque process. The legislature pares back many bills twice a year ...

While the federal Department of Government Efficiency is taking a wrecking ball to our democracy at the national level, a bill is sailing through the Legislature that would eliminate basic ...

Six months after they promised to focus on California's cost of living and affordability problems, California's legislative leaders still don't have a concrete plan to tackle the issue. California ...

Democrats in the California legislature met over the weekend to negotiate new congressional maps that could potentially play a large role in deciding control of the U.S. House during the midterms.

From a ban on cat declawing procedures to an attempt to protect children from harmful artificial intelligence “companion” chatbots, the California Legislature was busy in its final days of session ...

Of the dozens of wildfire-related bills that legislators were quick to introduce in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged greater Los Angeles in January, roughly half of the ones tracked by Southern ...