Only 17% of California households could qualify to buy in 2025’s first quarter, according to calculations from the California Association of Realtors. Six years earlier, this affordability yardstick showed 32% could buy. And this qualification measure has averaged 31% since 2006.

As the House of Representatives has been debating its one big, beautiful bill this week, the Senate has been considering a contentious vote of its own. On

No matter how you configure the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill’s tax breaks, wealthier Californians stand to get more benefits. That’s the finding of a new study Friday from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

The DCCC's first paid ads of the 2026 election cycle target Asian American voters in several Southern California swing districts.

Oakland moved 70 homeless individuals into interim housing at Mandela House, clearing an encampment as part of a grant-funded operation.

A gated San Marino home, formerly owned by the late “SpongeBob SquarePants” creator Stephen Hillenburg, is on the market for $5.895 million four years after it last sold.

The Senate voted on Thursday to ax California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars, making a controversial move to sidestep the parliamentarian in the process. The vote was 51-44, and the measure

California's EV mandate requires that 35% of all new vehicles sold in the state be electric in 2026, but EV sales were only 25% of the total in 2023 and 2024.

Harris calls herself a proud daughter of California, and after serving as vice president and in the Senate, she doesn’t need to chase another title. That said, California is one of the world’s largest economies by itself, and its governor becomes, by default, a national figure.