Governor Gavin Newsom has walked a political tightrope, balancing hard rhetoric toward the president against the state's need ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been balancing a desire to push back on Republican policies with a need to cooperate in ...

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...

Lamont’s budget invests in universal preschool but does not meet the needs of other nonprofits, like food banks and ...

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More than a half-dozen candidates for governor of New Jersey descended upon Washington, D.C., to schmooze with some of the state’s most well-connected businesspeople and political operatives in one of ...

In the debates over the 14th Amendment in 1866, Sen. John Conness argued convincingly that "children of all parentage ...

Rep. Vince Fong says President Trump’s involvement with California’s water is a “call for urgent and bold action.” ...

Allegations of criminal activity by former Montana Senate leader Jason Ellsworth are being handed over to the state Department of Justice following a floor debate in the Senate chambers in ...

For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.