SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization — a win for reproductive health advocates amid nationwide concerns about the future of access to fertility treatments. The bill […]
Newsom signs bill requiring health insurance companies to cover IVF Read More »
SACRAMENTO — Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a right to abortion in 2022, providers across California have seen an increase in protests outside their clinics and have scrambled to increase security measures, lobbying cities to enforce ordinances meant to shield
California abortion clinics worry about security amid protests Read More »
SACRAMENTO — Twenty years ago, freshly elected as San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris urged California lawmakers to crack down on child sex trafficking and warned that her fellow prosecutors had gotten it all wrong. Minors should not be arrested as
A rookie Kamala Harris worked to protect child sex workers Read More »
Nearly an hour into a fundraiser in a tidy gated community just outside Palm Springs in late May, a soft-spoken Lisa Middleton — who could become California’s first out transgender state lawmaker if elected in November — acknowledged her historic
Lisa Middleton and Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh compete for California Senate Read More »
SACRAMENTO — A year ago, thousands of workers went on strike across California, and what became known as “hot labor summer” was reflected in mandatory wage increases and other state policy wins remarkable even for a Democratic-controlled Legislature sympathetic to union
After ‘hot labor summer,’ California Legislature chills on union bills Read More »
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday that would expand healthcare coverage to include in vitro fertilization amid concerns that a potential Trump presidency could threaten access to reproductive healthcare. The Democratic controlled state does
California Legislature sends bill to Newsom to insure IVF Read More »
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers have repeatedly tried and failed to extend the state’s last call laws to allow establishments to serve alcohol past 2 a.m., what they argue would be a boon for local economies. The state Senate this week quietly
California bill would allow drinking til 4 a.m. in Intuit Dome suites Read More »
