Jeanne Kuang is an accountability reporter who covers labor, politics and California’s state government for CalMatters. She focuses on how well officials follow through on laws, such as indoor heat ...

Nigel Duara joined CalMatters in 2020 as a Los Angeles-based reporter covering poverty and inequality issues for our ...

Immigration raids don’t raise wages and actually deflate them, and employers aren't more likely to use immigration ...

While Gov. Tony Evers has touted the new state budget’s child care funds as a compromise victory, some providers say they’re ...

Members of the public criticized the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for sending too many people back to prison for rule ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers failure to draw on public opposition to Republican budget priorities is a political and policy disaster ...

A new lawsuit again tries to have the Wisconsin court system declare the state's congressional maps are unconstitutional.

The Sierra Club unveiled more than 70,000 origami fish as part of a protest against Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline in ...

Advocates say it's still uncertain when major changes to Medicaid from the federal tax cut bill just enacted will take effect ...

State laws that let a 10-member committee of the Legislature override regulations are unconstitutional, a majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The ruling hands the administration of ...

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden claims to have engineered the Wisconsin budget deal that mitigated the Medicaid cuts he voted for ...

A WEC report blamed leadership in the Madison city clerk's office for nearly 200 absentee ballots going missing last year.