The one-night snapshot in San Francisco found that the number of people sleeping in tents and on sidewalks has decreased while the number of unhoused people increased.

California Forever promises to add 15,000 jobs to Solano County if voters approve its plan to build a new city from scratch in November. Twelve companies have pledged their support for the plan and to build factories and offices there.

Programs funded by Proposition 47’s cost savings are showing success transitioning individuals out of incarceration — even amid a push to rollback parts of the landmark criminal justice reform.

The biannual point-in-time count is a snapshot of the number of unhoused people. While some cities saw increases, the rate of growth has slowed — which advocates say is encouraging.

The little-known Central American Minors program has started, stopped and started again under successive presidential administrations.

The governor urged the planning commission to approve the 40-unit project, a little over a year after a mass shooting on two farms revealed deplorable conditions for farmworkers.

In California, a conflict has emerged between the Wonderful Co. and the United Farm Workers over worker organization under a new labor law. Since its enactment, four groups of farm laborers, including those from Wonderful Nurseries in Wasco, have sought to unionize.

Half Moon Bay is pursuing two low-income housing developments for farmworkers in the wake of the mass shooting on two mushroom farms last year. Gov. Gavin Newsom feels the process isn't moving fast enough.