Cal Fire’s budget has nearly doubled since 2019, from $2 billion to $3.8 billion. (About 57 percent of California’s forests ...

The budgets are setting up a process that would probably mean big cuts in social programs, notably Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California. The Senate budget Friday did not deal with most domestic ...

Republican senators pushed a $340-billion budget framework to passage over Democratic objections after a nearly all-night ...

Since 2015, bills from the state’s three biggest utilities have risen between 70% and 100%, outpacing the rate of inflation.