Commentary: A study Gov. Gavin Newsom commissioned describes higher margins oil refiners receive for their products, which become gasoline. bit.ly/4hZ51pj 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Justin Sullivan

A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms. bit.ly/3JV8Cbg 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

What will California’s next governor do about health care? Four Democrats in the race say answering the Trump Administration’s cuts and making care affordable is important. But they disagree about how to pay for that. bit.ly/43xQzhY 📸 Leroy Hamilton

An unusually strong storm system has reached Southern California, raising fears that the rain could unleash a threat that has been lingering in the burn scars of wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles communities in recent years. bit.ly/4oEVIgu 📸 Joel Angel Juarez

California’s data centers have doubled their use of electricity and demand for water , and are polluting more, even as lawmakers stall on oversight. bit.ly/3X0x266 📸 Brittany Hosea-Small, Reuters

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths. bit.ly/4p64iVu 📸 Chris Carlson, AP

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a critic of the powerful Coastal Commission, and other top Democrats have appointed three pro-development local officials this year to help get more housing and other developments approved along the Pacific coast. bit.ly/3XszqTh 📸 Adriana Heldiz

California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today. bit.ly/4qSf0k5 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Shelby Knowles

Commentary: California is a blue state with relatively high taxes now. Do voters want to add more or make it difficult to add more? bit.ly/3WUAtex 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

AT&T’s failed effort this year to retire copper landlines in parts of California seemed to have support from a diverse grassroots coalition. But many of the members had ties with the telecom giant, CalMatters found. bit.ly/49nQDVn 📸 Chad Surmick

Commentary: People outside Los Angeles undoubtedly imagine that a liberal, Black woman mayor would be vulnerable only to a conservative, someone who could hold the center while she drew support from the left. Those people would be wrong. bit.ly/3WUhjWc 📝 Jim Newton 📸 Ted Soqui, AP

California Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire has officially launched his challenge to longtime Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa in a congressional district drastically redrawn by Proposition 50. bit.ly/4806lnj 📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Youth homelessness has declined by nearly a quarter since 2019 in California, according to a new report that offers a bright spot amid the state’s ongoing struggle to bring people off the streets. bit.ly/3LE8D3M 📝 @marisakendall.bsky.social 📸 Anda Chu

CalMatters exclusive: @mayacmiller.bsky.social has confirmed the identity of another co-conspirator, Alexis Podesta. Her attorney says she isn't charged and is cooperating with investigators. calmatters.org/politics/202...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and three co-conspirators were indicted Wednesday on 23 counts of bank and wire fraud, allegedly committed from 2022 to 2024, during her time working for the governor. bit.ly/3XoJD31 📸 Lea Suzuki, Getty

Commentary: For so long, I’ve carried the weight of knowing that my sister’s story was used to build systems that don’t work — that harm communities, that don’t make us safer and that don’t reflect what victims actually need. bit.ly/47Ak4lG 📝 Jess Nichol 📸 Nic Coury, AP

Three years after closing its maternity ward, a new state law will help a rural Northern California hospital bring birth services back to the community. bit.ly/4hRFHkM 📸 Courtesy of Plumas Hospital District

A few hundred feet apart, yet worlds away politically, furious students at UC Berkeley protested the final stop of the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour,” hosted Monday night on what is known as the nation’s most liberal campus. bit.ly/3WQMnWU 📸 Chrissa Olson

After two fraught years of negotiations amid dire projections for the Colorado River’s reservoirs, California and six other states that rely on the river’s water have yet again failed to reach a deal — despite a federal deadline. bit.ly/4r03eo0 📸 Gregory Bull, AP

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social serves 300,000 students, yet only one of the two students on the 26-member Board of Regents is allowed to vote. Now, student leaders are campaigning for a second vote bit.ly/4qZaTmw 📸 Florence Middleton

Commentary: Gov. Newsom attracted national news coverage thanks to Proposition 50 before jetting to Brazil for a climate conference President Donald Trump avoided. bit.ly/3LVVbs0 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Jason Fochtman, Getty

California likes to think of itself as a nation — and this week, it’s acting like one. Gov. Gavin Newsom, top state officials and legislators are leading a delegation to the United Nations’ 30th Conference of Parties this week in Belém. bit.ly/3LVPo5N 📸 Wagner Meier

California adopted criminal penalties for filing false claims against police officers 30 years ago. The state Supreme Court held that the LAPD went too far in advising people about those penalties when they file citizen complaints. bit.ly/4oyl3sD 📸 J.W. Hendricks

Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. As the clock ticks down, two questions looms large: Just how real is this deadline, and what does it mean for California? bit.ly/3WORG9b 📸 Caitlin Ochs, Reuters

The University of California dodged what could have been one of the biggest labor strikes in its history, after reaching a tentative agreement on Saturday with the University Professional and Technical Employees labor group. bit.ly/4qRAjSN 📸 Penny Collins, Reuters

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins, California officials are the highest profile American delegation this week in Bélem, Brazil. The Trump administration has abandoned the Paris climate agreement and won’t send officials to the talks. bit.ly/43VqsBD 📸 Wagner Meier, Getty

Ten months after the Palisades Fire ripped through L.A. County and killed 12 people, Will Rogers State Historic Park finally reopened Saturday, albeit partially, after remaining off-limits since the devastating wildfire broke out. bit.ly/49c57r7 📸 Brian Baer

An Oregon district court judge sided with California on Friday, issuing a permanent injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s deployment of state National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., including California’s. bit.ly/4qSFQsk 📸 Ted Soqui

Commentary: As advocates for health consumers and marginalized communities, we believe limiting growth in health care costs is both fair and essential. Increases in health care costs have vastly outpaced inflation. bit.ly/3WOvDzp 📝 Amanda McAllister-Wallner & Kiran Savage-Sangwan 📸 Randy Vasquez

Commentary: California likes to think of itself as a laboratory for progress. But when it comes to racial equity in higher education, the experiment has failed. bit.ly/3JVbqFh 📝 Marcus Anthony Hunter 📸 Harika Maddala

Keeping up with students’ methods of cheating has always been a cat-and-mouse game for teachers. But some now say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity in the classroom. bit.ly/3Lww7rK 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Lauren Justice

“We feel alone, we feel forgotten,” one L.A. fire survivor said as she called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to step down. The elected Democrat counters that his reforms need time to work. bit.ly/43jCJzG 📝 @levisu.bsky.social 📸 Fred Greaves

CalMatters’ Digital Democracy leads this @nytimes.com article on how A.I. is sweeping through newsrooms. Read how our reporter Ryan Sabalow used A.I. to uncover how California Democrats kill bills by not voting on them at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Commentary: New housing starts were around 100,000 a year when Newsom took office in 2019, and they are about that number today, with the net increase even lower. bit.ly/4hLW3vv 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Commentary: This doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game. We can chart a path that addresses port pollution, improves quality of life and recognizes the role ports play in our global supply chains. bit.ly/49GnAME 📝 Theral Golden and Paola Vargas 📸 Joel Angel Juarez

Millions went to pet projects even as lawmakers made deep budget cuts. Here’s how they sent money back home to help get re-elected. bit.ly/43hK8PU 📸 Fred Greaves

Legal experts, including a former federal official and UCLA professor, say California could go it alone if the federal government stops regulating greenhouse gases. One reason to try is to protect the state’s clean-car economy. bit.ly/4otM9kx 📝 @gauchoesque.bsky.social 📸 Shelby Knowles

California is under pressure to embrace more temporary homeless shelters that require sobriety, at the potential expense of long-term housing. bit.ly/4qP9tuu 📝 @marisakendall.bsky.social 📸 Martin do Nascimento

In recent years, California Republicans wielded far more influence in Congress than in the state Legislature, thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But since his ouster, and now under Prop. 50 maps, the GOP is increasingly isolated. bit.ly/3WGCzPd 📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

The CA Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes. bit.ly/3Lkm3lz 📝 @nigelduara.bsky.social 📸 Damian Dovarganes, AP

Commentary: Sen. Alex Padilla joins other prominent people who elected to not seek California's highest office. Now there's no clear frontrunner — so far. bit.ly/3JouKut 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Adriana Heldiz

A Supreme Court’s decision on the case it heard Wednesday could have a huge effect on California's businesses. bit.ly/47r4clo 📝 @levisu.bsky.social 📸 Mark Schiefelbein, AP

With Prop. 50’s overwhelming passage, the governor has vaulted — for the moment — into the role of Democratic favorite in the 2028 presidential campaign. bit.ly/4oPRSRs 📝 @jeannereporter.bsky.social 📸 Jungho Kim

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of 2026 and not seek a 21st term in Congress. bit.ly/47ZPGRQ 📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social 📸 Chris Kleponis, Reuters

Commentary: I was brought to the United States from Sri Lanka when I was 19. I was told I couldn’t leave — because I had already been bought. AB 1362, while a step in the right direction, isn’t enough. It covers many foreign workers but not all. bit.ly/47wL5oE 📝 Kanti Salgadu

The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet, according to experts. 📸 Lauren Justice

Commentary: Potential challenges in the courts and in Washington may affect whether Prop 50 influences the 2026 political races. bit.ly/3JG2jYP 📝 Dan Walters 📸 Jungho Kim

Tuesday capped off a whirlwind, hyper-partisan two-and-a-half-month campaign for one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history. Here are four things to know about how Prop. 50 will affect California, Newsom and Trump. bit.ly/4oRV8M2 📸 Jungho Kim

California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 50, the ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional map in favor of Democrats. See how each county voted with live provisional results that are updated every 10 minutes: bit.ly/4oNtf80 📸 Jungho Kim

Breaking: It’s a yes for Prop. 50. California voters approved the measure to temporarily suspend the state’s nonpartisan citizens redistricting commission until 2030. bit.ly/3WAJfhI 📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social& @jeannereporter.bsky.social 📸 Ted Soqui