After months of controversy following the contentious ethnic studies meeting, staff maintain that board member Rowena Chiu ...

Jay Thorwaldson, a journalist who covered Palo Alto and the greater Peninsula area for nearly half a century and whose work ...

The California Legislature is often the arena for games of political Whac-A-Mole. A piece of controversial legislation fails to clear all of the Capitol’s procedural hurdles and appears to die, but ...

In summary Under Trump’s directive the Department of Education laid off half its staff. The lawsuit argues Trump has no authority to make such drastic changes. California and 19 other states plus ...

Music of all kinds is in the air this week, from a fundraiser concert for L.A. fire relief to the world premiere of a new choral work; from a pop-up event highlighting rap and reggaeton to a nearly ...

A measles poster at the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo by Lucy Nicholson, Reuters From CalMatters health reporter Ana B. Ibarra: California public health officials are ...