A crowded debate featuring six Democrats and one Republican on Tuesday night signaled a shift in California’s gubernatorial race, as candidates more aggressively trained their fire on term-limited Gov ...

California has about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about 45 percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population ...

Homelessness — and affordability and housing availability — is among the many concerns voters will ask candidates to address in 2026.

Possible 2026 California ballot initiative gives seniors a tax break they don’t need — to prevent a homeless problem they don ...

Nearly 300,000 California students are homeless and face shrinking school supports as one‑time federal aid ends.

The moderate Democrat has been a frequent critic of Gavin Newsom over his handling of the state’s homelessness and drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Gavin Newsom gives his final State of the State address as governor at the California Capitol in Sacramento on Thursday, Jan.

The California governor’s pivot to the center may be too late for 2028.

Sacramento County, like many communities across the state, hasn’t attempted to physically count the number of homeless people since January 2024, per federal guidelines. Yet on Thursday from ...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan announced he is running for California governor, joining an already crowded field.

The year opened with President Trump declaring that "the fraud investigation of California has begun," a move that quickly ...

CBS News California analyzed a decade of state audits and found that lawmakers failed to enact three out of every four state audit recommendations. Year after year, the auditor tracks the same ...