In the California Legislature, there is a bill to ban all law enforcement from covering their faces while conducting ...

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent ...

It took what amounted to political blackmail against the Legislature, but Gov. Gavin Newsom finally achieved what his ...

SB 79, a transit-oriented housing bill, has passed the Assembly Housing Committee and aims to increase housing supply, reduce ...

Ronald Reagan signed more than a half-century ago, would require confronting two powerful interest groups: environmental ...

AS OF MONDAY, developers will have an easier time building in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law that ...

Lawsuits have been the bane of real estate projects around the Bay Area, and while a new law won't end them, it will give ...

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez introduced the No Masks for ICE Act, which would prevent federal immigration agents ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rolled back a 54-year-old landmark environmental protection law to aid ...

The social and economic costs of leaving CEQA intact became too high. With Gavin Newsom nearing the end of his governorship, he decided to confront the issue squarely.

Newsom called the bills the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of California.” ...