Minor technical violations can lead to million-dollar payouts, transforming PAGA into a cash cow for wealthy trial lawyers ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law sweeping reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and ...

Just this week, after a decade of failed efforts, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to reform the state's signature environmental law to stop activists from using it to block housing construction.

Driving much of the dysfunction is a progressive regulatory structure that smothers builders under mountains of red tape ...

San Diego lawmakers pushed for amendments to the tax credit that could help a fledgling studio set to open in San Diego ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

The regulations have long been blamed for the state's chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

Newsom described the bills as the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of ...

While making cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster ...

New legislation exempts virtually all infill housing projects from CEQA’s provisions, making it more difficult for opponents of high-density housing projects to block approval.

Changes to the California Environmental Quality Act came via two trailer bills (AB 130 and SB 131) attached to the state ...