It’s no secret that California is hard to afford. When it comes to housing, no city or town is left out of the financial squeeze. But the West Side Church of God is doing something no other church in Fresno County has done before: it’s building affordable housing.

A new law requires colleges to prove their graduates earn more than someone with only a high school diploma or else students could lose access to federal loans. About 300 California programs may fail the test, including many cosmetology and some arts programs.

California lawmakers seek to revive an expired law that would require the state to identify companies that employ 100 or more and have employees enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.

The board’s conservative majority voted to delay placing the last-ditch effort to extend Fresno County’s critical transportation tax measure on the ballot until a study gets completed — a decision that will likely prevent the Better Roads measure from appearing on ballots before Measure C expires in 2027.

AB 311 would change California insurance law by allowing drivers to opt in to being tracked through telematics, which transmits data to insurance companies.