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A new poll found that California Deputy Atty. Gen. Marissa Roy has a 10-point lead over her opponent, Deputy Dist. Atty. John McKinney, in the race for L.A. city attorney, but more than two-thirds of likely voters remain undecided....
Stepping in for a complacent Congress, Democratic attorneys general are ready to fight efforts to undermine or overturn the Nov. 3 election. "We need to stay vigilant," says Colorado's Phil Weiser....
L.A. voting rights groups rally to recruit poll watchers, launch protection programs, and counter potential election disruption in the November vote.
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda if the party sweeps control in the November elections.
There's more bad news for the People Mover at LAX. The project is delayed again, an issue that's taken center stage in the Los Angeles mayor's race.
California voters will decide on Proposition 39, the voter ID measure appearing on the November ballot. Here's what to know about the measure.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, left, talks with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at Hazeltine Park in Sherman Oaks in 2024. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) A hedge fund manager who wants more bike lanes and a construction workers' union are the biggest donors...
People opposed to a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., earlier this month. (David A. Lieb / AP) In a case watched across the country and as voting begins in the midterm elections, the Supreme Court blocked a congressional m...
The Supreme Court is allowing states to resume using a controversial federal tool to check voter eligibility before the November elections.
The two mayoral hopefuls were effectively neck and neck as they pulled in donations of up to $1,800 while also tapping the city's pool of taxpayer matching funds....
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks during a news conference July 1 in New York. (David Delgado / AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has for now revived a federal data system the Department of Homeland Security revamped into a tool to check the citizenship of millions of ...
A Honduran national living in the San Fernando Valley pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of fraudulently registering to vote in United States elections. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, of Winnetka, is charged with felony counts of false claim to U.S. citizenship and ...
September LA Times/Berkeley poll on statewide propositions
When Trump descended that damned escalator, I knew this racist excuse for a leader would nevertheless appeal to many Latino men.
The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections , granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissen...
We need both candidates to be bolder, more creative, more convincing, and to tell us things we haven't heard before.
Hedge fund manager Aaron Sosnick gave a combined $4 million to two independent expenditure committees backing Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday....
People visit the Billionaire Tax Now booth at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 2026 (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) California voters will soon decide whether to tax billionaires — but even if a majority says yes, the measure could...
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks during a news conference about his department's investigation into alleged election fraud in the county on March 20, 2026. (Anjali Sharif-Paul / The Sun via Getty Images) Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco lost in California’s Supreme Court ...
The California Supreme Court ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return over 650,000 ballots seized during an investigation into the state's November special election....
Voters is Los Angeles County can expect sample ballots to arrive soon for the Nov. 3 general election. County election officials began mailing the ballots Thursday. The sample ballots offer important information on how to vote and the races they’ll be deciding, including contests...
The Riverside County sheriff and one-time gubernatorial candidate who seized more than half a million ballots in a 2025 special election must return them to county election officials, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximatel...
The state's high court issued a ruling Thursday on whether Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco had the authority to seize more than half a million ballots in what the former Republican candidate for governor claimed was an investigation into voter fraud....
The mayor's camp dismissed the Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll as an outlier, but one Bass insider said the survey 'put a pit in stomachs.'
As Californians prepare to elect a new governor in November, the top concern they want the new leader to prioritize is reducing the state's entrenched high cost of living, according to a new poll....
A newly released poll showed City Councilmember Nithya Raman with a significant lead over Mayor Karen Bass in L.A.'s mayoral race.
L.A. City Council approved $466.6 million in affordable housing funding on Tuesday. It'll go toward developers, nonprofits and land trusts developing housing projects....
Ella Langley's song "Choosin' Texas" is officially the longest-running No. 1 single in the U.S., spending 23 weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100....
Challenger Nithya Raman has a double-digit percentage points lead over incumbent Karen Bass in the race for Los Angeles mayor, according to a Berkeley IGS/LA Times poll released Wednesday. Councilmember Raman, who placed second to Bass in the June primary, was favored by 39% of l...
A competitive week two on "Dancing with the Stars" saw three couples tie for the lead on top of the judges' scoreboard. The night ended with another couple being sent home....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took aim at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, posting a video on social media ahead of his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly....
Assemblymember Carl DeMaio speaks during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 23, 2025. (Fred Greaves / CalMatters) Republican State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio is seeking to distance the voter ID measure Californians will see on their November ballot ...
September 22, 2026 Contact: Stephen R. Whitmore, Public Information Officer pio@assessor.lacounty.gov 213.974.3101 Supervisors Approve Assessor Prang’s Nomination of Amanda Susskind as Inaugural Ethics Commissioner Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors una...
The Menendez brothers will have another opportunity in 2027 to convince a parole board they should be set free.
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts denied allegations that he groped a high school student at a community event.
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts denied allegations that he groped a high school student at a community event.
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts held a news conference denying allegations that he inappropriately touched a high school student while posing for a group photo at a community event last week....
A block of Equinix data centers sit across the street from a Prime data center on Great Oaks Blvd. in South San Jose on Aug. 31, 2026. (Anna Hoch-Kenney / CalMatters) Facing growing public backlash and a pivot from his own past vetoes, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package ...
The cruise line company confirmed the passenger had gone overboard after reviewing CCTV footage. He is still considered missing.
Torrance has voted to end a nearly decade-long practice of routinely trapping and killing coyotes, shifting toward nonlethal methods aimed at reducing conflicts between the animals and residents. The Torrance City Council voted Sept. 15 to discontinue the year-round trapping prog...
L.A. County says it has received federal grand jury subpoenas demanding voter registration information on dozens of individuals the Trump administration suspects may not be U.S. citizens....
The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open to the public Tuesday in Exposition Park, bringing a collection devoted to visual storytelling that spans centuries and includes works ranging from paintings and photography to comics, murals and artifacts from George Lucas...
A passenger on a Carnival cruise ship went overboard, prompting a lockdown.
A man jumped overboard from a Carnival Cruise ship off the coast of Mexico, prompting an ongoing search by the U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican authorities, officials said Sunday. The passenger, identified only as a 56-year-old man, was aboard the Carnival Panorama as it sailed from ...
California Republicans running in the state's most competitive House races are appearing to keep some measure of public distance from Trump ahead of the Nov. 3 election....
Voters across the nation say skyrocketing gas prices are causing financial hardships for their families.
In an interview with The Times, Councilmember Nithya Raman addressed topics including homelessness, how her stance on the LAPD has changed over time, and her biggest mistake on the council....
