By Alexei Koseff As debate raged this summer over whether President Joe Biden should abandon his re-election bid, Gov. Gavin ...

While Santa Monica voters backed a slate of progressive, liberal candidates for City Council this week, voters took a ...

During the four years that Donald Trump was president the first time, California sued him about every 12 days on average. Now that he’s returning to office, Democratic state leaders are preparing ...

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Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and ...

Locals at the Santa Monica Pier will have their attention to the other side of the Pacific Ocean this weekend thanks to some ...

Nathan Hochman defeated George Gascón in the race for Los Angeles County district attorney, unseating an incumbent ...

California voters decided on 10 ballot measures including one that would turn some nonviolent crimes, like shoplifting, into ...

California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, the state Legislature overall could reach gender parity for the first time.

Elections have consequences, as California is likely to learn when Donald Trump once again moves into the White House. The state has been a bastion of anti-Trump sentiment ever since the bombastic ...

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff won the California US Senate seat long held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on ...

You are a f*ing Spic, call me a racist; I am a proud Jew whose family all perished in the Holocaust. How dare you, go back to ...