In a legislative battle a decade in the making, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the ...

For much of the past half century, suburban sprawl across the Sun Belt was a kind ... The perception of the Sun Belt as the anti-California used to be accurate. In a recent paper, two urban economists ...

The notion of controlling development and limiting suburban sprawl is finding some traction in pockets of the Sun Belt and ...

Across the U.S., ten states are losing forest land faster than ever due to logging, wildfires, and development. From ...

California's new CEQA-related trailer bills AB 130 and AB 131 aim to streamline environmental review for housing, but critics ...

So yes, these pancakes are absolutely worth the drive. Whether you’re coming from San Francisco, Sacramento, or even further afield, the journey to Katrina’s Café is an investment in joy – the kind of ...

California’s relentless drought has many questioning if human activity—from water mismanagement to greenhouse gas ...

California lawmakers are set to vote Monday on two controversial bills that would scale back the state’s signature environmental protection law, which a growing chorus of critics blame for blocking ...

Los Angeles County supervisors approved the 12,000-acre Centennial development in 2020. The Center and California Native Plant Society sued the county for failing to thoroughly analyze the ...

Newsom’s signature on a $321 billion state budget is “contingent” on “legislation to cut red tape and unleash housing,” a ...