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The bruising, yearlong contest pitted Jurado, a first-time candidate, against De León, a veteran lawmaker who was politically wounded by his participation in a secretly recorded conversation that featured racist and crude remarks.

California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 35, the measure that cements an existing tax on health plans to help fund the Medi-Cal program, as election results continued to be tallied Wednesday.

The 12 candidates in the L.A. Community College District Board of Trustees election ran for four seats. Incumbents are leading.

California voters approved a ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeat theft and crimes involving fentanyl.

The outcome of L.A. school board races could dramatically shift policy in the nation's second-largest school system. Redistricting reform seems likely to pass.

Measure A would double the quarter-cent sales tax for homeless services. Measure G would dramatically shift power within L.A. County government.

Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman, who campaigned on restoring public safety in L.A. County, seems likely to oust Dist. Atty. George Gascón from office, according to early returns.

A public funeral Mass for the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles.

In Kamala Harris' childhood neighborhood, and among her friends in San Francisco and Oakland, people expressed hope and anxiety as polls close.

Monday's Santa Ana gusts were but a taste of what's to come later this week, says the National Weather Service, which has issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag warning across southwest California from late Tuesday through Friday.

Here's how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl.

California voters were deciding between Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey in the race to replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate.

Republicans are clinging to a slim majority in the House and are defending 15 seats seen as toss-ups. No state has more swing seats than California.

Some people are trying their best to meet the moment — with mixed results — while others have simply chosen not to let the race for president and control of Congress dominate their lives.

One police commissioner broke ranks from her colleagues by arguing that a proposed salary of nearly half a million dollars was too high for the next LAPD chief given the city's financial constraints.

It was a quiet afternoon in Kamala Harris' Brentwood neighborhood, which soon could be the site of her Western White House.

A 72-year-old Long Beach man was found dead in his home Friday night. But what officials believed to be a suicide is now a homicide investigation.

IN THE MONTHS preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively. But most included instruction about the presidential election in …

A small plane made an emergency landing and forced the closure of southbound lanes on busy Highway 85 in Cupertino. No one was injured.

'I was working a job in Chinatown, driving on the 110 and saw the building and thought, "That's it,"' said Xavier Mozejewski, explaining how he came up with his costume.