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Proposition 45 is intended to make it easier to build. But some pro-housing groups worry it will only lead to more sprawl. cal.news/4jDdnpp 📸 Larry Valenzuela

You’ll see an El Nino-sized set of propositions that could flood the housing construction and science research components of the California economy with $44 billion of bond spending if the measures pass. cal.news/4kffcZN 📸 Jules Hotz

California is leaning into the rehabilitative potential of sports. On Sept. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Second Chance Sports Act, directing the state’s prison system to come up with a plan to expand sports programming. cal.news/3W7aOlM 📸 Brian L. Frank

Opinion | California has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally change how the state supports local public schools. cal.news/4yNopfN 📝 Heather Hough 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Both Democratic candidates for insurance commissioner have promised not to take campaign donations from the industry that one of them will soon be regulating. Despite that, insurance money has seeped in. cal.news/4zPGjiB 📸 Fred Greaves

Surveys show an age gap across the top issues on California’s ballot, including taxing billionaires and requiring IDs to vote. But while Gen Z makes up 30% of the state’s eligible voters, they are far less likely to vote than their counterparts age 55 and older. cal.news/4e1fgZv 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Proposition 45 is intended to make it easier to build. But some pro-housing groups worry it will only lead to more sprawl. cal.news/4ki4G3W 📸 Larry Valenzuela

A last-minute voter guide to all 14 propositions on the California ballot Californians are voting on 14 ballot measures, including propositions on taxes, voting, healthcare, housing and the environment. It's a lot to take in, but we're here to help.

Neighbors wanted this LA County plant’s permit pulled. The state said not yet A new oversight board found errors in how regulators renewed the Phibro-Tech permit but stopped short of revoking it.

A last-minute voter guide to all 14 propositions on the California ballot Californians are voting on 14 ballot measures, including propositions on taxes, voting, healthcare, housing and the environment. It's a lot to take in, but we're here to help.

Why are there so many bonds on the California ballot? Here's what $44 billion would buy Californians will decide on $44 billion in bonds when the vote on Propositions 1, 37 and 38. They'd take out debt to pay for housing and medical research.

Neighbors wanted this LA County plant’s permit pulled. The state said not yet A new oversight board found errors in how regulators renewed the Phibro-Tech permit but stopped short of revoking it.

3 bonds are on the California ballot. Here's a last-minute voter guide to make sense of them Californians will decide on $44 billion in bonds when the vote on Propositions 1, 37 and 38. They'd take out debt to pay for housing and medical research.

Opinion | Why the fate of California's wealth tax could be decided well after the election Prop. 40 faces a gauntlet to succeed, including surviving two poison-pill propositions. Then it will probably be challenged in court.

Medi-Cal cuts could push seniors and people with disabilities off of coverage A second cut in two years forces seniors and people with disabilities to spend down savings or risk losing care.

Opinion | Which candidate do the city’s Latinos, the largest ethnic group in this multicultural metropolis, prefer? Polling points in all directions. cal.news/4smzaDV 📝 Jim Newton 📸 Pablo Unzueta

Opinion | The flip side of declining popular and political support for emissions reduction policies is a new warning from Newsom’s administration that California faces a slow-motion apocalypse. cal.news/4ywlHLf 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Eric Thayer

The question Proposition 2 poses to California voters is simple: Should the state be able to save more money when its economy is booming? cal.news/4BnU0a8 📸 Fred Greaves

Rep. Doris Matsui and Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang are locked in an intergenerational “battle of the ages” in the 7th Congressional District. cal.news/3UiOUvg 📸 José Luis Villegas

Hilton told CalMatters he would move to suspend the carbon market — which he called “a disaster of a program” — entirely. The Becerra campaign did not respond to multiple emailed requests for comment. cal.news/4z9me7c 📸 Grace Widyatmadja

Opinion | The federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens in California is obviously aimed more at having a political impact than combating serious crime. cal.news/4zOsNvR 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Jae C. Hong, AP

California state workers say they’re tired of governors balancing the budget “on their backs” and are beginning a statewide state strike today. It's the first-ever statewide walkout in 44 years. cal.news/4i3slE4 📸 Fred Greaves

The largest union in California state government held a one-day strike, drawing thousands of workers off the job. It's pressing Gov. Gavin Newsom for raises. cal.news/4iykQoC 📸 Fred Greaves

California is trying to block the Trump administration's voter lawsuit. Here’s what the attorney general said in a court filing. cal.news/4Bqtc9q 📸 Fred Greaves

Although California lawmakers recently passed a suite of laws intended to bring transparency to the development of new data centers, local communities across the state are signaling that disclosure isn’t enough. cal.news/3WGCbmL 📸 Anna Hoch-Kenney

Next July, new Medi-Cal rules prohibit seniors and people with disabilities from saving more than $21,000. State leaders say they needed to make cuts to deliver a balanced budget. cal.news/488keQu 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Opinion | Critics have laid out an array of potential legal challenges that would be novel because a wealth tax itself is unprecedented. cal.news/4zN7gUe 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Manuel Orbegozo

The largest union in California state government held a one-day strike, drawing thousands of workers off the job. It's pressing Gov. Gavin Newsom for raises. cal.news/3Wjuhj5 📸 Fred Greaves

‘Borders on the absurd.’ California fights Trump lawsuit to set aside 20,000 ballots California is trying to block the Trump administration's voter lawsuit. Here’s what the attorney general said in a court filing.

With California bracing for a wet winter, the state auditor warns that nearly a third of local agencies maintaining vital flood control levees in parts of the Central Valley have been performing “unacceptable routine maintenance” — some of them, for years. cal.news/3VVjJGR 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Opinion | For my son Rio and his classmates, these next two years should be about growing as athletes and teammates — not becoming test cases for a plan that doesn’t fit the place they live. cal.news/4BnOnZO 📝 Xavier Jimenez 📸 Brooke Hess-Homeier, AP

If Proposition 3 looks familiar, it’s because this is the third time the income tax measure has appeared on California ballots. But this time might be the last. cal.news/4zOmMzl 📸 Florence Middleton

Opinion | The federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens in California is obviously aimed more at having a political impact than combating serious crime. cal.news/4ySRpCV 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Jae C. Hong, AP

California state workers say they’re tired of governors balancing the budget “on their backs” and are beginning a statewide state strike today. It's the first-ever statewide walkout in 44 years. cal.news/4dLd48k 📸 Fred Greaves

The Trump administration charged 28 immigrants with allegedly illegally voting or registering to vote in California in its latest push to hunt down voter fraud. Such cases are exceedingly rare and not proof elections are fraudulent. cal.news/4ifzmAx 📸 Jae C. Hong, AP

Opinion | Whatever accomplishments Gavin Newsom might claim from his eight years as governor, he will also leave a legacy of mismanagement that has squandered untold billions of taxpayers’ dollars. cal.news/4yHA4g8 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Keith Birmingham

Opinion | The Trump administration’s attack on California’s ongoing elections is merely one episode in a long and dismal series of efforts to undermine confidence in the integrity of the American democratic system. cal.news/486pLai 📝 Robert Greene 📸 Pablo Unzueta

The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve Proposition 38 this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year. cal.news/4shghlR 📸 Brian van der Brug

Whether cookie-cutter liberal politics or fiscal conservatism will be enough to energize the base and pick up independents in the purple, albeit Democratic-leaning district, is the real question. cal.news/4yDiRnT 📸 Adriana Heldiz

A clever solution or a confusing gimmick? Like it or hate it, almost everyone has questions about Proposition 37. Here are a few of the big ones — with the best available answers. cal.news/486nUSS 📸 Martin do Nascimento

California state government's largest union is scheduled to strike this week. It could affect services at a number of offices that people visit every day, including the DMV. cal.news/4dPQw6f

Supporters say California desperately needs money to fund housing construction and make a dent in its homelessness and affordability crisis. Critics say bond financing isn’t the way to do it. cal.news/4i2SmC4 📸 Damian Dovarganes, AP

The Trump administration charged 28 immigrants with allegedly illegally voting or registering to vote in California in its latest push to hunt down voter fraud. Such cases are exceedingly rare and not proof elections are fraudulent. cal.news/4dOKyCI 📸 Jae C. Hong, AP

Watch: CalMatters and Evident team up to investigate what happens to truck drivers in California after they kill someone on the road. cal.news/4yzYiZF 📸 Anna Hoch-Kenney 🎨 Josephine Choy

Judges aren’t exactly household names, although one on your ballot shares a name with a certain multiplatinum-selling musician. They generally don’t campaign, either. cal.news/4i6xRnT 📸 Damian Dovarganes, AP

Opinion | My experience as a CARE Court judge showed me how powerful a courtroom can be when it has the right tools and the right people. I have seen real change in people. cal.news/4seyxMR 📝 Charles F. Adams 📸 Florence Middleton