The Latest Breaking News from California

Both candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for California Controller—Malia Cohen (D) and Lanhee Chen (R)—completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

The state has several programs in place to assist residents – but they’re already running out of funds

With two ballot initiatives to legalize sports betting in California headed for near-certain defeat in November, players on all sides are beginning to strategize their next moves even as campaign representatives say they remain focused on the election at hand.

LOS ANGELES — In the November race for California secretary of state, the candidates — Republican business executive Robert Bernosky and incumbent Shirley Weber, a Democratic former lawmaker — seem to agree on one thing: the need to boost voter registration and turnout at the polls.

STANFORD, California — Nestled just south of Stanford University’s campus, amid narrow winding roads lined with imposing oaks and historical estates, an exclusive enclave has neighbors pitted against neighbors over a legal battle that poses a new twist on the region’s housing crisis.

California Assembly Bill 2660 sought to address a disturbing problem — a lack of clear and consistent data on dying children — with a straightforward solution: requiring officials to review and report such deaths. Not surprisingly, it sailed through the state Legislature without a single no vote from either party…

REDWOOD CITY, California — A tech titan and a biotech company revealed plans to chop nearly 300 jobs in the Bay Area, hinting at unsettling prospects for the region’s employment sector.

The 95-year-old Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park will close for two months at the start of 2023 to undergo a $31.6 million renovation to make the hotel better equipped to withstand earthquakes, the California park announced Tuesday.

ATLANTA — While working for the U.S. Navy in California, Gamaliel Turner learned that his right to vote in Georgia had been challenged by the chairman of his home county’s Republican Party.

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Wednesday to further delay its decision on whether to list the western Joshua tree as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday that his office would investigate the Los Angeles redistricting process that took place last fall.