Voters in Oakland, California, recalled their mayor in November over crime, homelessness and allegations of corruption.

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In recent weeks our intrepid Chris Micheli has given us a detailed look at California’s complex official rulemaking process.

The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...

McCulloh and I worked on books and essays about Southern California, and the joy was in long days spent driving countless ...

A Stockton man recently found out he could no longer vote after an error in San Joaquin County marked him as being dead.

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According to a California Voter Foundation analysis, Imperial County had the highest rejection rate during the 2024 election, ...

New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, struck down a local law allowing non-citizens to vote in New York City ...

On March 15, 2025, in a new executive order, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that endows the president with ...

Grijalva, the son of a Mexican immigrant who rose to the halls of Congress in a public-service career that stretched more ...