Paige Winfield Cunningham

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.

The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”

On June 15, the Golden State is saying goodbye to many of the regulations that have shaped daily life for the last pandemic year.

Between 2016 and 2019, Bakersfield police officers used force that broke at least 45 bones in 31 people, an analysis of public records shows.

For most of American history, abortion has been legal, outlawed only from 1867 to 1973. Now the U.S. Supreme Court might outlaw it again by overturning Roe v. Wade.

More than half of all American adults have been vaccinated, according to the Biden administration, and life is seemingly speeding back to normal.

KCRW is joining other public radio stations up and down the state to mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

California will roll out a statewide electronic vaccine verification program, which Gov. Gavin Newsom does not call a passport.

Jobs numbers are up but a recovery still looks rocky as we emerge from the pandemic.