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The state's legislative analyst says Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget proposal is too pessimistic -- to the tune of $3.2 billion. That's how much more revenue the analyst expects by the end of the next budget year than the governor is forecasting. Thi...

By Alexia Underwood More than one million people in California suffer from mental illness – the largest number of any state. When the final phase of the new health care law starts in January of next year, more California residents than ever before...

When Charles Garcia looks at a garden, he doesn't see plants. He sees medicine, heritage, art and magic. A curandero, Garcia practices traditional folk healing – curanderismo – the way his mother, grandmother and grandfather did. “It's a combinat...

By Mary Flynn California’s sweeping criminal justice reform plan, in place since October 2011, was meant to sharply reduce the state’s prison population. But the changes may have also had the unintended consequence of passing along the biggest p...

Gov. Jerry Brown committed Tuesday to a state-based expansion of subsidized health care for low-income Californians, abandoning a proposal he had floated that would have required each of the state's 58 counties to provide care for the low-income people...

By Hannah Guzik Under the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are required to offer domestic-violence screening and counseling to all women, and health insurance companies are required pay for those services. Health care providers statewide h...

A revolution in the oil industry that’s been taking place in Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Dakota is poised to sweep through California’s oil patch, with the potential to produce hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in tax revenue for the stat...

Older adults facing age discrimination or squeezed out by employers looking to cut costs are increasingly finding entrepreneurship a surprisingly realistic option in a rugged new economy. Matt Perry's latest column on aging with dignity.

By Robin Urevich In 2000, California voters overwhelmingly approved Prop 36, a ballot measure that offers non-violent drug offenders treatment instead of jail. But now the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act is on life support, if not altogethe...

By Callie Shanafelt Right now, young people are generally benefitting from protective changes ushered in by Obama care. But many advocates and experts wonder if the Affordable Care Act will actually make care more affordable for young people – or ...