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A new state law requires California community colleges with shower facilities to let homeless students use those showers. Previously, some campuses required students to be enrolled in physical education classes.

The Political Junkie is turning his analytical gaze west. Ken Rudin, known to NPR listeners from his many years talking all things politics with Neal Conan on "Talk of the Nation," joins Insight host Beth Ruyak for our signature segment.

With the start of the New Year, Capital Public Radio kicks off the new laws series going into effect for 2017. Capital Public Radio’s Bob Moffitt begins with a look at criminal background checks and concussion protocol.

As of Jan. 1, California no longer prevents additional welfare payments for families who have more children while receiving state aid. Opponents of the maximum family grant called it discriminatory and invasive.

More than 60 percent of the Sacramento area's top employers plan to hire in the first-quarter, up five percent from a year ago. But some companies are worried potential changes in healthcare and workplace benefits rules could thwart those plans.

Some people usher in the New Year by firing guns into the air, and that means police will be busy looking for such gunfire as the clock nears midnight.

A new law in 2017 could help save animals trapped in hot unattended vehicles.

California’s sales tax will drop by a quarter of a percent in the new year. The reduction comes from the partial expiration of a statewide ballot measure that helped end California’s budget crisis.

The new session of Congress will bring few new California faces to Washington.

A hotly contested law to phase in new overtime pay for farm workers got lots of buzz when Governor Jerry Brown signed it into law earlier this year. That "phase in" won't begin until 2019 but one provision goes into effect on the first of January.