In Sacramento, Mayor Bass seeks state money to close nearly $1-billion budget gap
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass returned to Sacramento Wednesday to lobby state leaders for money to help close the city’s nearly $1-billion budget hole. This…
Trump’s policies, stock market volatility leave big questions for California budget planners
SACRAMENTO — As the stock market plummeted last week, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas sat at his desk in the state Capitol and predicted that President Trump’s…
Protesters denounce Trump and Musk in rallies across the U.S.
WASHINGTON — Opponents of President Trump and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s slashing of government agencies and…
Newsom heads to D.C. to meet with Trump
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom left California on Tuesday for Washington to meet with President Trump, administration officials and members of Congress about federal disaster aid in…
California lawmakers approve millions for lawsuits against Trump
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s special session came to an end Monday after the California Legislature approved $50 million to fund court battles against the Trump administration…
California electors vote for Harris as Electoral College confirms Trump next president
SACRAMENTO — At a somber electoral college ceremony at the state Capitol on Tuesday, electors who had hoped to be celebrating the historic presidency of a…
Union’s campaign against Democrat Josh Newman helped Republican Steven Choi win
A University of California workers union was successful in its fight to oust an Orange County Democrat from the state Senate after he did not…
Special interests spend big to influence L.A. legislative races
The California Legislature is poised to welcome one of its largest freshman classes in more than a decade, and special interest groups are spending millions…
A ‘Locally hated/Dyslexic Hairstylist’ battles the Christian right in a Texas town
GRANBURY, Texas — One might wonder how Adrienne Quinn Martin, a hairdresser, former belly dancer, mother of two and long-ago brand girl for a liquor distributor,…
Newsom signs another retail theft bill amid rising crime concerns
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed the last of a bundle of retail theft bills crafted by Democratic lawmakers to address the rise in…
After ‘hot labor summer,’ California Legislature chills on union bills
SACRAMENTO — A year ago, thousands of workers went on strike across California, and what became known as “hot labor summer” was reflected in mandatory wage…