News from across California that affects Ventura County readers.
From left, U.S. Rep. Adam Gray and Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln. Photos via the U.S. House of Representatives and Lincoln’s campaign website Democratic Rep. Adam Gray knows all too well that every vote makes a difference. Two years ago, it took The Associated Press more than a month after Election Day to declare Gray won the race to represent California’s 13th Congressional District, the ti...
Maya C. Miller · Oct 23, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters during a rally about redistricting at the Democracy Center of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters Last month, while signing a bill to provide a tax credit for struggling local news outlets, Gov. Gavin Newsom reminisced about the days when reporters thronged around him when he was mayor...
Jeanne Kuang · Oct 23, 2026
San Diego’s Lake Hodges Dam under repair in fall of 2022. The dam is expected to be replaced in the next decade. The dam, built as a multiple arch design, was completed in 1918, and purchased by the City of San Diego in 1925. Photo by John Gastaldo for CalMatters With an El Niño winter threatening heavy rain, the State Auditor warns that California’s aging dams “continue to pose a risk to pu...
Rachel Becker · Oct 23, 2026
Photo via istockphoto.com For years, California has grappled with a problem that has affected nearly every aspect of our society: The state doesn’t have enough homes that people can afford to live in. Proposition 1 aims to address that crisis. It’s estimated that more than 180,000 Californians are homeless. Rents are so high that a minimum wage worker would need to work 102 hours a week to...
Marisa Kendall · Oct 23, 2026
The Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles on July 26, 2022. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters Is California doing enough to curtail Medi-Cal fraud? The state auditor doesn’t think so. A report released last week by Grant Parks, the state auditor, suggests the Department of Health Care Services is ill-equipped to stop pervasive abuse in Medi-Cal, a program that serves abo...
Jocelyn Wiener · Oct 23, 2026
Photo via istockphoto.com Proposition 40, also known as the billionaire tax, is the most contentious fight on Californians’ ballots this November. The proposal to impose a one-time asset tax on the net worth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires has divided Democrats, galvanized progressives and sparked fierce pushback from business groups and the state’s wealthy tech sector. Google...
Oct 14, 2026
Hopeton Leahong, a family nurse practitioner, examines Ramonte Means at St. John's Community Health's Avalon Clinic in Los Angeles on Feb. 7, 2026. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to...
Kristen Hwang · Oct 14, 2026
Ian Choudri, chief executive officer of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, speaks during a special board meeting at the California Natural Resources Agency in Sacramento on Oct. 9, 2026. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters The board that oversees the California High-Speed Rail Authority voted last week to rein in Chief Executive Ian Choudri’s contracting authority following a state i...
Yue Stella Yu · Oct 14, 2026
Detention officers escort a handcuffed person from a white van into a federal immigration office in downtown Fresno on Oct. 7, 2026. Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters In a dim storefront near downtown Fresno, a family gathered to mourn. They wore memorial T-shirts, lit candles, and told stories about their patriarch through tears and sobs. Luis Arreguin didn’t die, but to his closes...
Wendy Fry · Oct 14, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Feb. 11, 2026. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future. Last week he endorsed Proposition 42, a ballot measure that would cancel out Proposition 40, th...
Jeanne Kuang · Oct 14, 2026
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