More than a dozen candidates are competing to replace Eleni Kounalakis in the California lieutenant governor’s race. Read full story Author: Katie King
Your guide to the California secretary of state race: Democrat Shirley Weber vs. Republican Don Wagner
Democrat Shirley Weber, the incumbent, faces Republican Don Wagner in the race for California secretary of state. Here is your election guide. Read full story Author: Melody Gutierrez
Your guide to the California state controller race: Democrat Malia Cohen faces challengers
Incumbent Malia Cohen faces Republican Herb Morgan and the Peace and Freedom Party’s Meghann Adams in the California state controller election. Read full story Author: Dakota Smith
Your guide to the California insurance commissioner’s race: Who will replace Ricardo Lara?
Who will replace Ricardo Lara in the California insurance commissioner’s race? More than a half-dozen candidates, four Democrats and five Republicans, are competing in the election. Read full story Author: …
Coded messages, ‘red boxing’ and other allegations in California’s testy race for governor
Becerra’s campaign website added strategic messaging often used to signal priorities to independent expenditure committees that cannot coordinate directly with the campaign. Read full story Author: Seema Mehta
They tracked California hate groups. Now, Trump’s DOJ charges donors were defrauded
For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been one of the few groups monitoring activity by far-right extremists in California. But the organization was recently charged with fraud and …
After ‘MAGA influencer’ trolls gay couple with baby, support grows for dad who threw punches
Anthony and David Vulin were walking through West Hollywood with their baby when a conservative social media influencer claimed that gay men are “likely to commit child molestation.” Punches were …
Arellano: The future of Latino politics just played out in Whittier
Whittier elected a Latino-majority council for the first time in the city’s history. But for the three winning Latino candidates, their ethnicity was an afterthought. Read full story Author: Gustavo …
These candidates for mayor are long shots. But they hope to lead the city of L.A.
They include a Gen Z video game streamer, a longtime engineer for the city and a mental health worker pregnant with her third child. Read full story Author: Hailey Branson-Potts
Behind the Trump administration’s detentions of L.A. Iranians
In L.A., home to the largest Iranian diaspora, a vocal segment has joined forces with Trump-aligned far-right activists to wage campaigns against other Iranians. Read full story Author: Suhauna Hussain
Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly?
Driverless cars haven’t always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they’ve gotten away with it. That’s about to change in California. Read …
‘A bit of a morbid story’: Salvaging the bicycles patients left behind at L.A. County General
At the shuttered LA County General Hospital, a bike mechanic toils in the basement to salvage some of the hundreds of bicycles left behind by patients. Read full story Author: …
For the first time, California growers have to say how much groundwater they’re taking
Some California farmers must start reporting to the state how much groundwater they pump. In two areas, Tule and Tulare Lake, they’re submitting pumping data this week. Read full story …
Mayor hopeful Huang takes donation from Twitch streamer suspended for antisemitic comments
Michael Beyer was suspended from Twitch in 2025 after comments surfaced in which he referred to Jewish identity as a “demonic ethnicity.” Beyer has since said he misspoke and abhors …
Mayor Bass’ budget cuts $1.6 million for dog exercise program at L.A. animal shelters
Animal rights activists are up in arms over plans to cut a $1.6-million contract that gets dogs in L.A. shelters out of their kennels for walks and play. Read full …
SoCal teen on electric dirt bike leads half a dozen patrol cars on bizarre, speedy pursuit
A bizarre pursuit unfolded along residential streets in Oceanside as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff’s patrol cars chased a teen on an electric dirt bike. Read full story …
Three people wounded in Skid Row shooting in downtown L.A.
Three people were injured in a shooting on Skid Row Thursday evening in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities. Read full story Author: Summer Lin
Kylie Jenner sued by second housekeeper who says she slipped a letter to Jenner pleading for help
Kylie Jenner is sued by a second housekeeper who says abusive treatment by staff worsened after she sought to notify Jenner. Read full story Author: Emily St. Martin
Legal battle to halt Nexstar-Tegna TV station merger expands with five new states
With the addition of the five new states, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s battle to block the merger is now bipartisan. Read full story Author: Meg James
Britney Spears charged with misdemeanor DUI involving drugs and alcohol
Britney Spears has been charged with a misdemeanor DUI in Ventura County. The pop star was arrested last month after driving erratically and a substance was found in her BMW …