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Thirteen candidates are competing to win the 51st Assembly District vacancy created by the congressional election earlier this year of former Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, on October 3, 2017. → Read More
California labor unions, who spend millions on lawmakers’ campaigns, had an ambitious agenda in the legislative session that ended early Saturday. → Read More
New U.S. Census statistics released Tuesday, September 12, 2017 showed that 20.4 percent of California residents lived in poverty from 2014-2016 under an alternative poverty measurement. → Read More
More than half of Californians used prescription opioids in 2016, Department of Public Health data show. Some parts of the state have much higher usage and overdose rates. → Read More
Sacramento transportation officials may try another transportation sales tax ballot measure in 2018, like Measure B, which failed in 2016. They plan on hiring a public relations firm to help. → Read More
Dozens of major wildfires continue to burn across California, from Los Angeles to the Oregon border, on Monday, Sept. 4. → Read More
More than a week Ali Khan was found unconscious in downtown Sacramento early Aug. 27, what caused his fatal major head injuries remains a mystery. → Read More
Authorities on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 lifted evacuation orders and warnings for the Ponderosa Fire in Butte County. → Read More
The California National Guard announced Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 that it was calling up hundreds of soldiers to help battle more than two-dozen fires around the state. → Read More
Filed Sept. 1, 2017, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 would allow consumers to opt out of business data collection efforts and require businesses to show them what they have collected. → Read More
State and local school officials are doing a poor job ensuring California schools produce safety plans, according to an Aug. 31, 2017, report by the Bureau of State Audits. Many districts don’t include active shooter scenarios in their plans. → Read More
On Aug. 29, 2017, the Humane Society of the U.S. and allied groups filed a ballot measure that would require more space for farm animals and ban → Read More
A Monterey County man wants to qualify a November 2018 ballot measure to legalize mushrooms containing psilocybin, which causes hallucinations. → Read More
Democrat Hillary Clinton, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016, is scheduled to stop at UC Davis’ Mondavi Center as part of her “Hillary Clinton Live” book tour in the U.S. and Canada. → Read More
California school officials held a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, to complain that the state is moving too slowly to sell any of the $9 billion in borrowing authorized by Proposition 51 on last fall’s ballot. → Read More
Vehicle registration data show that new car buyers in San Francisco and Los Angeles really liked the Honda Civic in 2016, while pickup trucks were the top choices in Bakersfield and the state’s far northern reaches. → Read More
A bill that would preserve changes to state election law to help state Sen. Josh Newman, D-Fullerton, has been introduced. Election officials say recall proponents have turned in enough valid voter signatures to qualify. → Read More
A new California ballot measure was filed Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 that would seek a new constitutional convention. The current U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 and the world “has changed dramatically” since then. → Read More
Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C. group, sent a letter Aug. 1, 2017 to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, telling him to crack down on counties that have more total registered voters than people eligible to vote. The claim is misleading. → Read More
Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C. group, sent a letter Aug. 1, 2017 to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, telling him to crack down on counties that have more total registered voters than people eligible to vote. The claim is misleading. → Read More