Volunteer-built transparency platform analyzes more than $2 trillion in California financial activity, exposing how a small independent team accomplished in under two weeks what Sacramento failed to d ...

The University of California is one of the world’s most prestigious centers of higher education and cutting-edge medical, technological and social research. One assumes that its faculty and ...

Six years ago, shortly after the Legislature enacted his first state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom embarked on a celebratory tour to tout the spending plan’s major provisions. CALmatters is a public ...

FI$Cal, California's ambitious financial system, remains incomplete after two decades and $1 billion spent. The State Bar's new remote testing system for lawyers ...

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YREKA, Calif. – Yreka residents will soon have a new choice when it comes to broadband. Cal-Ore Communications will offer a new wired option called FTTP, or as it’s more commonly called simply fiber.

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State Controller Betty Yee is “gravely concerned” that problems with the state’s accounting software could undermine California’s credit worthiness, she wrote in a recent letter to legislators.

Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison has agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit in California for a $100-million payment to charity, says Joseph Tabacco, a lawyer for shareholders in the case. The ...