Greg Micek

California’s prison population is aging, and caring for the oldest inmates is expensive. That has the state weighing whether to release more of them. A state committee took up the question this week.

Now an independent agency is examining why, and what the state should do about it.

Vote-by-mail ballots for the November election are arriving in California mailboxes. Election officials have one main request for voters: don't wait.

California is moving to expand its oversight of artificial intelligence. Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to speed up the state's AI laws, but the biggest changes are still just proposals.

It heads next to Governor Newsom's desk.

A new report offers the most detailed account yet of the avalanche which killed nine people near Truckee in February.

In the last presidential election, about 42% of eligible California voters under 25 cast a ballot. That's much lower than the overall statewide turnout of 62%.

A coalition of crime victims’ families and law enforcement leaders is suing California’s parole board. They want to block a new process that could give certain incarcerated people a path to shorter sentences.

California has a new cabinet-level agency focused entirely on housing and homelessness. It officially began operating July 1st.

With temperatures on the rise, so is mosquito activity, and with it the risk of West Nile virus. Health officials are urging people to take precautions ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.