Water officials in California have increased the water allocation forecast for 27 million Californians after several March ...

Padilla, appointed to his California Senate seat in 2021 and then elected in 2022, chaired two subcommittees in the last Congress. One involved fisheries, wildlife and water. The other dealt with ...

The Bakersfield lawmaker will be termed out of the legislature in 2026. Who could take over a district that runs from north ...

Two pivotal seats are up for grabs in Kern County and the Central Valley. In California's 22nd Congressional District, Congressman David Valadao (R) may be set to face his two-time challenger Rudy ...

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone level.

Bills have been introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey this session.

A 55-year-old man was sentenced in Sacramento County for lewd acts upon a child over several months, the district attorney's ...

Southern California residents have spent the beginning of the year recovering from some of the most destructive wildfires ...

New Hampshire's Shaheen, who turned 78 in January, was the first woman elected to serve as both a governor and senator in the ...

California’s Democratic senators, historically big supporters of organized labor, were split over whether to confirm Lori ...

A helicopter makes a water drop on the Mountain fire, which burned in Santa Paula and Camarillo in November. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

She similarly said that Sacramento needs people who understand housing issues “to move the needle” on the state’s affordable housing crisis. Senate District 26 represents a part of L.A. that ...