Adam Hardesty looks through floor plans at his home in Carlsbad on Feb. 19, 2025. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters In a dispute over whether he can convert his three-story condominium’s garage into ...

As wildfires swept through Los Angeles County last month, the New York Times published a commentary by former insurance commissioner Dave Jones, who suggested that oil companies should pay for the ...

Mountain View Mayor Ellen Kamei is eager to see some of her top priorities make it across the finish line, despite the ...

California’s new Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been stalled because it lacks ”clarity.” The new standard, which offers ...

Palo Alto’s Byxbee parkrun is the only Northern California affiliate of an international running group founded in London 20 ...

This week: concerts with Latin folk musician Diana Gameros and Martha High's Funky Divas; a tribute to the music of Willie Nelson will raise funds for LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

West Bay Opera spins some vocal confections with Bellini's sleep-walking melodrama "La sonnambula." The opera is rarely staged, so this production offers quite an opportunity to catch it.

A federal investigation has found more than $135,370 earmarked for preschool education program Head Start was misappropriated ...

In summary Threats of deportation have caused anxiety among immigrants, but schools in the Salinas Valley are helping comfort children and easing parents’ fears. E., a mother of three in Salinas, is ...

Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local As the setting for John Steinbeck’s 1950s classic “East ...

The timing could not have been better — or worse. The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires erupted in January just as Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s historic and very ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has become a familiar sight around Los Angeles since the firestorm that swept through the region last month, leveling neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. In the first ...