Water managers
Less than three years after the end of California’s historic drought, new reports show the state’s major reservoirs at 128% of their historic average, filled by last winter’s heavy rains and a big Sierra snow pack.
Kamala Harris
Latest polls show California’s junior senator moving backward in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination — currently a distant fourth in her home state, and fifth in Iowa — with just four months until the Iowa caucuses.
Big Labor
Unions rack up major wins in Sacramento this year, including AB 5, to require thousands of contractors, like Uber drivers, to become employees. But union membership statewide, now at just 14% of workers, continues to fall.