A congressional committee is scrutinizing universities across the country for how they’ve handled student and faculty actions ...

With 7 of its ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about ...

California regulators last updated landfill pollution standards in 2010. An activist says the latest effort to revisit them is inadequate.

Assemblymember Mia Bonta wants to beef up a state law to allow legislators to spend an unlimited amount of campaign funds for security.

Supporters pitch Prop. 36 as a way to combat homelessness, which is up by more than 50% since Prop. 47 passed. The reason, supporters say, is that drug dependence pushes people to the street, and ...