News from across California that affects Ventura County readers.
An aerial view of the Harvey O. Banks Delta Pumping Plant, which lifts water into the California Aqueduct, in Alameda County on May 11, 2023. Photo via the California Department of Water Resources California water regulators have approved a new plan overhauling how farms and cities take water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and rivers that feed it, setting up the next fight over Gov. G...
Rachel Becker · Nov 6, 2026
Election ballots at the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office in Sacramento on June 7, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Last Wednesday, a federal judge issued a blistering order warning federal prosecutors to stop threatening California election officials with crimes. A day later, federal prosecutors kept going. At least four elections workers in California have recei...
Jeanne Kuang, Ryan Sabalow and Sergio Olmos · Nov 6, 2026
Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez speaks about Senate Bill 131 during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 30, 2025. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Some candidates for the California Legislature are increasingly using a controversial tactic that experts and watchdog organizations say appears to flout the state’s campaign finance laws. A CalMatters survey of legis...
Kate Wolffe and Nadia Lathan · Nov 6, 2026
Voters fill out their ballots at a vote center at Pacific Beach/Taylor Library in San Diego on June 2, 2026. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters Election officials from across California questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s methodology for finding noncitizen voters after the Trump administration threatened them with criminal charges last week. The counties on Friday were give...
Ryan Sabalow and Jeanne Kuang · Nov 6, 2026
Loren Chow looked in the rearview mirror and had a terrifying realization.We’re going to get hit.There’s nothing I can do to get out of this.Traffic outside Fresno had slowed. A semitruck loaded with fertilizer from Missouri, cruising at 65 miles per hour, hadn’t. By the time the driver, Baljit Singh, hit the brakes, it was too late. A fully loaded big rig traveling at that speed takes the leng...
Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler · Oct 30, 2026
The question Proposition 2 poses to California voters is simple: Should the state be able to save more money when its economy is booming?The ballot measure, dubbed the Save for California’s Future Act, seeks to shore up California’s rainy-day fund by allowing state lawmakers to sock away up to 20% of the state’s general fund tax revenue — double the current ceiling of 10%.It would also require...
Yue Stella Yu · Oct 30, 2026
Yes, the much talked-about billionaire tax is on the ballot this November, but it’s just one of 14 statewide propositions.If you’re not a policy wonk who knows the ins and outs of state election, tax or environmental law, don’t worry — you’re not alone, and we’re here to help. The CalMatters voter guide has full explainers, videos and even quizzes to help you decide how these measures line up w...
Adam Echelman · Oct 30, 2026
Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.A collaboration between CalMatters, Evident Media and Bellingcat has tracked these agents, documenting their tactics on the ground and through mountains of video footage, since t...
Sergio Olmos · Oct 30, 2026
Your November ballot is welcoming you to make it rain … in bonds.You’ll see an El Nino-sized set of propositions that could flood the housing construction and science research components of the California economy with $44 billion of bond spending if the measures pass.Two of those bond proposals — Proposition 1 for housing and Proposition 38 for immunology research — are the traditional borrow-n...
Mikhail Zinshteyn · Oct 30, 2026
Republican Assemblymember Greg Wallis is fighting hard to retain his seat representing a purple district in Southern California. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters With less than three weeks until Election Day, outside groups are pouring millions of dollars into two types of state legislative races: purple districts featuring a Democrat and a Republican, and safely Democratic districts fea...
Kate Wolffe · Oct 23, 2026
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