California Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire (@ilike_mike) has officially launched his challenge to longtime Republican @RepLaMalfa in a congressional district drastically redrawn by Proposition 50. https://t.co/tX3hKoTCAE 📝 @mayacmiller 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

Youth homelessness has declined by nearly a quarter since 2019 in California, according to a new report that offers a bright spot amid the state’s ongoing struggle to bring people off the streets. https://t.co/hjAK9vkvAF 📝 @MarisaKendall 📸 Anda Chu

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and three co-conspirators were indicted Wednesday on 23 counts of bank and wire fraud, allegedly committed from 2022 to 2024, during her time working for the governor. https://t.co/0xpFwA2ISu 📸 Lea Suzuki, Getty

Three years after closing its maternity ward, a new state law will help a rural Northern California hospital bring birth services back to the community. https://t.co/pEFse0HIhX 📸 Courtesy of Plumas Hospital District

A few hundred feet apart, yet worlds away politically, furious students at UC Berkeley protested the final stop of the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour.” https://t.co/j6w3UJ0N1f 📸 Chrissa Olson

After two years of negotiations amid dire projections for the Colorado River’s reservoirs, California and six other states that rely on the river’s water have yet again failed to reach a deal — despite a federal deadline. https://t.co/WguXQRxrkC 📝 @RA_Becks 📸 Gregory Bull, AP

The @UofCalifornia serves 300,000 students, yet only one of the two students on the 26-member Board of Regents is allowed to vote. Now, student leaders are campaigning for a second vote. https://t.co/nBkn04CbRd 📸 Florence Middleton

California likes to think of itself as a nation — and this week, it’s acting like one. Gov. Newsom, top state officials and legislators are leading a delegation to the United Nations’ 30th Conference of Parties this week. https://t.co/6wmLFh9eb3 📸 Wagner Meier

CA adopted criminal penalties for filing false claims against police officers 30 years ago. The state Supreme Court held that the LAPD went too far in advising people about those penalties when they file citizen complaints https://t.co/9KJxERnMJx 📝 @nigelduara 📸 J.W. Hendricks

Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. Two questions looms large: Just how real is this deadline, and what does it mean for California? https://t.co/UWB5lRUFQi 📝 @RA_Becks 📸 Caitlin Ochs, Reuters

The University of California dodged what could have been one of the biggest labor strikes in its history, after reaching a tentative agreement on Saturday with the University Professional and Technical Employees labor group. https://t.co/Jf2RAjE3OH 📸 Penny Collins, Reuters

As the U.N. Climate Change Conference begins, CA officials are the highest profile American delegation this week in Bélem, Brazil. The Trump administration has abandoned the Paris climate agreement and won’t send officials. https://t.co/tj0rRPc95o 📸 Wagner Meier, Getty

Ten months after the Palisades Fire ripped through L.A. County and killed 12 people, Will Rogers State Historic Park finally reopened Saturday, albeit partially, after remaining off-limits since the devastating wildfire broke out. https://t.co/DzznlMoWbb 📸 Brian Baer

An Oregon district court judge sided with California on Friday, issuing a permanent injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s deployment of state National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., including California’s. https://t.co/u7dvYhJ8z5 📸 Ted Soqui

Keeping up with students’ methods of cheating has always been a cat-and-mouse game. But some teachers now say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity. https://t.co/8kYSuTFzRL 📝 @carolynjones 📸 Lauren Justice

“We feel alone, we feel forgotten,” one L.A. fire survivor said as she called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to step down. The elected Democrat counters that his reforms need time to work. https://t.co/xKBK3KjUHP 📝 @levisu 📸 Fred Greaves

Legal experts, including a former federal official and UCLA professor, say CA could go it alone if the federal government stops regulating greenhouse gases. One reason to try is to protect the state’s clean-car economy https://t.co/rlky9G4abc 📝 @AlejandroLazo 📸 Shelby Knowles

California is under pressure to embrace more temporary homeless shelters that require sobriety, at the potential expense of long-term housing. https://t.co/xU5lAbU0b7 📝 @MarisaKendall 📸 Martin do Nascimento

In recent years, CA Republicans wielded far more influence in Congress than in the state Legislature, thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But since his ouster, and now under Prop. 50 maps, the GOP is increasingly isolated https://t.co/wpivh5uwBR 📝 @mayacmiller 📸 Jules Hotz

The CA Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes. https://t.co/0ZLlNWwZkg 📝 @nigelduara 📸 Damian Dovarganes, AP