Election 2012

When it came to fielding a question Tuesday on whether he's going to endorse someone to succeed him as Los Angeles mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa dropped a name that surprised many attending his lunch address at the Sacramento Press Club. It wasn't E...

What's the price of a California congressional seat? Well over $1 million, if campaign contributions are any indication. California's 53-member congressional delegation raised a combined $85 million for their successful 2012 races, with the average m...

When Howard Berman lost the most expensive congressional race in the country last year - falling to fellow Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman after the two were thrown together in the same district - it marked the end of a fabled Southern California politica...

More than two-thirds of California business leaders see the state as an extraordinarily difficult state in which to operate, a new survey by the California Business Roundtable has found. The poll adds heft to the often-voiced complaints about the stat...

I have high hopes that the campaign Obama for America which shocked the pundits and Republicans in its reach and effectiveness will be just as successful now that it has morphed into Organizing for Action.

California has one of the nation's lowest rates of smoking -- just 13.6 percent of adults light up -- but the American Lung Association gives the state low marks for

Former congressman Howard Berman's friends in Congress are making political life difficult for congressman Brad Sherman, who defeated Berman when the two Democratic incumbents were thrown into the same Southern

The 82-member freshman class taking seats in the U.S. House of Representatives today includes nine former members of the California Legislature. Former Sens. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Chino

Democratic Reps.-elect Gloria Negrete McLeod and Juan Vargas are stepping down from the California Senate today ahead of the start of the 113th Congress. The two will be sworn in

Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez called to order this afternoon California's members of the Electoral College, declaring 2 p.m. to have arrived on the first Monday after the second Wednesday