The board of directors at the Bay Area Air District voted Wednesday to lower the criteria to declare Spare the Air alerts.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday threatened to cut billions in state funding from the University of Southern California ...

Check out some events happening soon on the local arts scene, including music, theater, and a literary pub crawl.

There’s fun planned this fall @t The Food Party! We’ll be investigating packaged and homemade stocks, playing around with orange and black foods, visiting some of the new hot spots in the East Bay, ...

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers’ efforts to free up state money for sober homeless housing have been thwarted for a second year in a row, after Gov.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Bench Ansfield Bench Ansfield is an assistant professor of history at Temple University ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In political jargon, “heat” means pressure on politicians to do something they may be reluctant, for whatever reason, ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. An ornate balcony or quirky garage door might be in reach for more Californians as homeowners associations across the ...