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How do you think the next four years under President Donald Trump will affect your daily life and community?

A bill just introduced in the state legislature would allow those harmed by climate disasters, like fires and floods, to sue oil companies. It would also allow insurance companies to do the same.

The new order builds on existing ones to suspend permit requirements for people rebuilding from the LA fires.

California has the biggest homeless population in the nation. But a new federal report shows the crisis is growing more slowly here than it is in most of the rest of the country.

President Joe Biden announced an executive action to ban future offshore oil and gas drilling in 625 million acres of ocean, including the Pacific Coast.

Gov. Newsom and legislators say they aim to secure funds for potential lawsuits against the next Trump administration close to his inauguration.

California has an aggressive mandate for zero-emission trucks, which are powered by electricity or hydrogen. But trucking companies face big obstacles — and people are still breathing dangerous diesel exhaust.

Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order aimed at lowering California’s increasingly high electricity costs.

Prop. 36 pledges to send more people convicted of drug possession to treatment instead of prison. Behavioral health directors say that’s easier said than done with workforce shortages across the state.

In California, it’s the state’s responsibility to protect people’s right to vote no matter the language they speak. To do that, it has voter assistance in ten languages, and several counties offer help in even more.