In Trinity County, isolation, pain, and limited healthcare drive gun suicides among seniors. Health officials plan prevention programs to address the crisis.

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

The Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, overturning a ruling that forbade agents from stopping people based on their appearance.

This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President Lyndon B.

Conjecture about whether Harris would run for governor began almost immediately after she lost the November election to President Donald Trump.

Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....

The House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

The bot fails at some basic questions. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes. Experts wonder if it launched too soon.

The new reconciliation law includes a $50 billion rural health fund. This brief describes the rural health fund, explains what the law says about the allocation of funds, and highlights outstanding qu...

A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its partners are selling thousands of stem cell samples before many of them are discarded.

CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions after the first weekend of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential legal questions about the government’s operation.

The House wants to raise the SALT deduction cap, which would help wealthy Californians pay less in federal taxes. The Senate disagrees.

The Trump administration claimed the sweeps were aimed at criminals, but data shows otherwise.

The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino's Kern County sweep, which a federal judge says likely violated the Constitution.

Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy

Newsom’s anger is escalating after Trump called in the National Guard to Los Angeles without his consent. Newsom is questioning the president’s mental fitness and called him a “stone cold liar.”

The governor proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the state Legislature are proposing more borrowing to keep those programs afloat.

Hundreds of National Guard soldiers are patrolling Los Angeles following President Trump's order calling them up to protect immigration officers.

As he details deep cuts to public health care and universities in his budget, one thing remains intact: $750 million in tax credits for Hollywood.

After reading a CalMatters article, two people were able to reconnect with their homeless relatives. Here’s what happened next.

'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.

Even in liberal-leaning California, undocumented immigrants who have worked here for decades are making plans to leave, choosing to depart on their own terms rather than risk being forced out with not...

The California DMV routinely allows deadly drivers to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found.

Her extensive property portfolio includes Sacramento office buildings that rent to state agencies and dozens of organizations with business before the state.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), a medical doctor, called on top health officials to “unequivocally” endorse measles vaccinations before “another child dies.”

Lake Tahoe is an innocent victim — but there isn’t just a single villain. This CalMatters series reveals the problems plaguing this alpine treasure.