Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a nearly 9% increase in total state spending for the upcoming fiscal year – that’s a $350 ...

The governor is banking on being able to continue to collect a special tax that is set to expire in June.

Three major factors contribute to the state's recurring crises. Some are easier to solve than others.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget lacks funding for additional subsidized child-care slots, stalling progress on getting ...

California's budgets have been susceptible to the ways wealthy taxpayers derive their income, particularly during periods of ...

California lawmakers and finance officials on Wednesday talked over how best to resolve a budget deficit totaling billions of ...

The idea that billionaires will flee California over a proposed wealth tax is bunk. Still, the ballot initiative is only a Band-Aid, and impedes a more serious conversation about the state's deeper ...

As both governor and a likely presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom's final state budget faces a political trap of his own ...

Despite a proposed a 7% funding increase for California's public universities, officials remain anxious over whether it will ...

Amid concerns that there might be as large as an $18 billion budget deficit in the coming year, California lawmakers started ...

"It's simply an irresponsible position to be putting ourselves in," one senator said of potential future deficits.

Newsom has made California smaller, poorer and less politically powerful. His many failings should be taken seriously; his ...