On Election Day and into the following week, it appeared Republicans in California would retain four the seven competitive congressional seats in districts Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. But as elections officials slowly tally the provisional and vote-by-mail ballots, it appears Democrats have taken all but one race – and even that one appears to be in doubt.
Read moreVoters in Dunsmuir, California, can challenge utility rate hikes proposed by town leaders to pay for repairs and upgrades to its aging water system, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read moreDemocrat Stacey Abrams said Friday evening she accepts that Brian Kemp, her Republican opponent in the Georgia gubernatorial race, would be certified the winner of their hotly-contested race.
Read moreCourt battles, recounts, partisan calls of election fraud – all par for the course in Florida’s particular brand of election politics. Ten days after the midterm elections and the nation is once again fixated on Florida’s inability to call elections on time.
Read moreIn a hilly, northeast community of Los Angeles, a giant chicken statue towers over taquerias and elote vendors along Figueroa Avenue – the historically Latino commercial avenue in Highland Park that has evolved in recent years to satisfy the tastes and desires of new residents of a neighborhood in flux.
Read moreThe most important race in Georgia could be the one no one is paying attention to. While the national spotlight continues to shine on Georgia’s contentious gubernatorial race, which still hasn’t come to a definitive end nearly two weeks out from Election Day, the contest to replace Republican Brian Kemp as Georgia’s top elections official is already headed to a December runoff.
Read moreWith his lead holding firm in the final stages of a Senate race recount in Florida, the campaign of Republican candidate Rick Scott lashed out at his Democratic opponent, calling three-term incumbent Bill Nelson an “angry bitter career politician” for not conceding his defeat.
Read moreRecommending they read William Faulkner to learn the “boundaries of human decency,” a federal judge on Friday admonished former Mississippi police officers accused of forcing a mentally disabled man to eat a mouthful of cinnamon days after making him box a cop.
Read moreThe list of missing people in the Camp Fire raging through Northern California climbed to more than 600 people and the death toll rose to 63, law enforcement officials said late Thursday.
Read moreThe California agency in charge of regulating pesticides handed down new regulations on a chemical found to cause brain damage in children, but public health and environmental advocates say the regulations don’t go far enough.
Read moreThe California State Auditor rebuked the agency in charge of implementing the state’s high-speed rail project Thursday, finding lack of planning and poor oversight has led to cost overruns plaguing the Golden State’s efforts.
Read moreColorado took its fight over a federal judge’s decision to strike down voter-approved restrictions for putting initiatives on the ballot to a 10th Circuit panel Thursday.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s top environmental official for the Southeast has been arrested on Alabama state ethics charges related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup.
Read moreCalifornia Governor-elect Gavin Newsom will inherit a state with a rosy financial outlook, according to the latest analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office released Wednesday.
Read moreAfter more than a year, the California Supreme Court bench is finally whole: Governor Jerry Brown announced Wednesday he has chosen his senior adviser Joshua Groban to fill the vacancy left by the 2017 retirement of Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar.
Read moreAuthorities on Wednesday found a body inside a destroyed home in Los Angeles County, the third death resulting from the Woolsey Fire which has destroyed over 480 buildings and homes in Southern California.
Read moreA one-time national security aide to former President Barack Obama has upset two-term Republican incumbent Rep. Tom MacArthur in New Jersey’s 3rd District.
Read moreA week ago on Election Night, Republicans had cause to believe the seawall they built against the predicted “blue wave” in California was going to hold up. Now, it looks like the wave will wash away the GOP’s remaining hopes for relevance in the Golden State as many of the slender leads held by congressional incumbents in competitive races have either vanished or narrowed.
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