The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has billions of dollars in disaster funds, which are used to reimburse states ...

Spending plan doesn’t include enough investments for programs that “would help Californians afford the basics.” ...

Some of the posts drew information from a Jan. 10 Newsweek article that said Newsom signed a budget in June that cut funding for wildfire and forest resilience by $101 million. California Assembly ...

asserting that the budget had grown for California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire. Newsom is right that the budget increased. But it’s not a lie that money (actually ...

As recovery efforts in the Palisades and Eaton fires begin, California’s Legislature passed a set of bills Thursday to expedite $2.5 billion in “bridge funding” intended to help state and local ...

California lawmakers unanimously passed more than $2.5 billion in state funding on Thursday “as step one” toward recovery from the fires that have devastated Los Angeles for weeks. “We’re all on the ...

Housing construction permits were already trending downward. Now the wildfires in Los Angeles have taken away at least 10,000 occupied homes.

After New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her $252 billion budget proposal this week, local state lawmakers appear to be on board with a new ban on cell phones in schools.

California tax revenues have been better than ... from a surge in tax payments from tech companies and workers, budget experts said.

Eric also will report on the state budget. — Angela Pontes, formerly chief deputy legislative secretary in Newsom's office, has joined Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California as senior vice ...