While Democrats may seem in retreat around the country, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, is off to a promising ...

When I arrived in Santa Barbara in 1983 to begin graduate studies in sociology at UC Santa Barbara, the only professor I knew by name was Richard Flacks.

The City of Oakland has cleared a large homeless encampment on East 12th Street, relocating about 70 people to the Mandela ...

The California leader has raised his political profile with a more combative attitude and is not ruling out a run for the ...

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?