When Zohran Mamdani’s lead media strategist slipped out of town and flew west to cut an ad for a little-known progressive in ...

A state law banning ICE agents from wearing masks in California is currently on hold after the Trump administration sued over ...

So many are running now that they may split the primary vote to the point at which the general election is just between two ...

As the new year begins, there’s no shortage of political trends to keep Californians preoccupied, entertained or perhaps ...

Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In your inbox three times per week. SACRAMENTO — It turns out Proposition 50 smacked ...

Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell and former Rep. Katie Porter are leading among their party for the state’s 2026 governor’s race, according to a new poll. Emerson College Polling and Inside ...

They’re not making existential crises like they used to. Biblical floods, ice ages, flaming asteroids screaming towards Earth certainly threaten existence. Texas gerrymandering? Not so much. Earlier ...

Under Newsom, California has made it more difficult to jail gang members, chiefly through 2021’s Assembly Bill 333. The STEP Forward Act, as it was called, made it harder for prosecutors to use gang ...

California’s battleground House districts might get the lion’s share of national attention for their role in deciding which party rules Congress’s lower chamber. But in a handful of California’s deep ...

Democrats are seeking to retake control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, but a swath of cutthroat primaries in ...

California candidate Esther Kim Varet's campaign used the wrong photo for an endorsement announcement, sparking a racial ...