In 2024, public libraries and schools saw attempts to ban more than 5,800 titles. Now, California cities are providing direct online access to banned and challenged books.

Here are three of the latest takeaways from the agency’s efforts to rid the state of what it calls “egregious” government waste.

Driven by rising poverty and inadequate retirement income, older people are increasingly turning to employment, with labor ...

Cuts in funding don’t change counties’ obligations to their residents. They will have to figure out how to raise new revenue, ...