The price of gasoline in California is regularly the highest in the nation, as it was last week. That makes pain at the pump a ready-made, high-profile election issue, though sometimes more so than others.

County election officials say that a state bill wouldn't allow undocumented immigrants to tally ballots, disputing claims from a Republican lawmaker.

We keep trying to give people more in wages rather than bringing down some of the core costs,” one Democrat said at the CalChamber event.

The committee spent nearly $1 million trying to re-elect Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford. Most House Republicans continue to back the Big, Beautiful bill, which extends expiring income tax rates beyond 2025 but also makes big cuts in Medicaid, food assistance and other government programs.

Former vice president and possible governor candidate Kamala Harris sat out the Democratic Party convention this weekend.

California Democrats say their party must stay committed to their values protecting the most vulnerable, while also honing their economic messaging to win back voters they lost last year.

A new California bill would make election recounts more expensive. The legislation, which was approved by the Assembly and has headed to the state Senate, would also allow nonvoters to serve on paid recount boards.

California Democrats are relying on the “resistance” playbook from 2018. Will it motivate the 2 million voters who sat out in November?

A California man is accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump in a series of posts on Facebook, federal prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors charged a Southern California man with threatening to kill President Trump after last year's election.

The Trump administration said it would pull roughly $4 billion in federal funding for California’s long-planned high-speed train, a project that has, over decades, become an avatar for the country’s declining ability to complete transformative new infrastructure.