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California’s Board of Equalization is a coveted spot once again for state lawmakers looking for a new gig almost a decade after then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law gutting the organization of any serious governing responsibility. cal.news/4dZvP8l 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

In the face of the nation’s highest gas prices, California lawmakers approved a bill to ease restrictions on E85 conversion kits — devices that let conventional gasoline cars run on a cheaper, mostly ethanol fuel blend. cal.news/4tNXMoo 📸 Zeng Hui

California has a new idea for $6 gas: Let more cars run on ethanol calmatters.org/environment/20…

Which of these is least likely? Giants fans and Dodgers fans sharing high-fives? Or California charter schools endorsing the same candidate for superintendent as the state’s largest teachers’ union? cal.news/3RouGOT 📸 Jeff Chiu, AP

California lawmakers are poised to kill legislation that would have forced them to immediately release lobbying letters from business and advocacy groups and given the public a new window into the secretive world of Capitol lobbying. cal.news/4wCpFCo 📸 Fred Greaves

With President Donald Trump dragging them down in the polls, California Republicans are repackaging one of his core crusades into an idea they hope will be more palatable to voters. cal.news/3RS6y7l 📸 Adriana Heldiz

Steyer, who has poured nearly $200 million into the most expensive primary campaign in state history, is under scrutiny for using paid social media influencers to post favorable things about him. Is that legal? cal.news/4nzG6Ly 📸 Jungho Kim

California’s community colleges have been battling fraudulent students for years, trying to prevent scammers from stealing financial aid money. Recent data shows the colleges’ efforts finally may be working. cal.news/49Iqb81 📸 Lea Suzuki

Californians would have to take a four-hour course with live-fire training to buy a gun if a bill advancing through the Legislature gets signed into law. cal.news/4wzrW1n 📸 Francine Orr

His VotingMatters events with local news organizations, colleges and others, aim to bring voters together to discuss the issues that matter most. cal.news/3PQW0Vv 📸 Larry Valenzuela

California is considering handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. cal.news/4nyW1dj 📸 Loren Elliott

California’s first-in-the-nation fast food council — created to give workers a voice on wages, safety and working conditions — has not met in over a year and has no chairperson. cal.news/4dvsrAO 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Data center builders don’t tell the public how much water they use, according to a new report — and the industry is encroaching into water-stressed and vulnerable communities. cal.news/43ixsrr 📸 Gina Ferazzi

California leaders approved the hospital funding within days even as they questioned the narrow criteria, the amount and the number of hospitals that would qualify. The speed stunned some hospitals... cal.news/4dtilQX 📸 Larry Valenzuela

Until last month, CA was poised to join nearly a dozen other states that ban cell phones in K-12 schools. But under pressure from school boards and administrators, lawmakers scaled back a bill that would have required such a blanket ban. cal.news/495hzbo 📸 Genaro Molina

Breaking: Six people died in California immigration detention centers over the past year as the crowded sites struggled to provide basic medical care, according to a new state investigation detailing conditions inside the facilities. cal.news/4de25Ew 📸 Anthony Albright

When you’re leading the polls, everyone takes their shots. Xavier Becerra found that out Thursday night as six gubernatorial rivals ganged up on him in the final debate before California’s primary. cal.news/4dmJCEp 📸 Godofredo A. Vásquez, AP

Today Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to present his final state spending plan and he’ll do it with a cloudy crystal ball. calmatters.org/newsletter/gav… 📸 Fred Greaves

Roughly 600,000 Californians still lack access to safe and reliable drinking water supplies. So why is the Newsom administration considering a climate overhaul that could gut a key source of funding? cal.news/3RDMLs9 📸 Larry Valenzuela

It’s now May and the report, which compiles data from a homeless census known as the “point-in-time count,” is nowhere to be found. cal.news/4tImVks 📸 Adriana Heldiz