California Law & Politics

A 28-year run for TV coverage of the California Legislature will end in January

Any speculation — and there’s lots of it — about which candidate will benefit most from California Sen. Kamala Harris dropping out of the race last week isn’t worth much.

Three City Council members called for full taxpayer financing of election campaigns in L.A., reviving an idea that was proposed before and went nowhere.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to develop an plan to build more housing and to appoint someone from the private sector to oversee it.

California’s new inspector general has found more than $13 million in “disallowed” expenditures reported by state and local government agencies.

California’s campaign watchdog agency has suspended a policy barring members from contributing to federal candidates after one commissioner donated to Bernie Sanders.

Karim Webb’s company has helped nearly a dozen applicants advance past an initial step in the licensing process, prompting questions about fairness from some rival entrepreneurs.

After being elected to the Senate in a 2016 cakewalk, Sen. Kamala Harris should have spent the next three years focused exclusively on representing Californians in Congress, helping the state on such vital issues as water development, environmental protection, healthcare and homelessness.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is studying a possible tunnel under Burbank airport for the route of the state’s troubled bullet train.

Hesperia passed an ordinance intended to address what one City Council member called a “demographical problem” — the city’s increasing black and Latino population, prosecutors said.

A rash of car burglaries in California has one prosecutor declaring a crisis, but state lawmakers this year balked for the second session in a row at closing a loophole that is hindering efforts to get convictions in break-in cases.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has found himself in the middle of a feud with State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, one of the most formidable factions of organized labor at the Capitol.