Gavin Newsom's Political Future Brightens With Lt. Governor Win
The mayor best-known for opening City Hall to same-sex weddings won decisively last week to be the state's next lieutenant governor.
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The mayor best-known for opening City Hall to same-sex weddings won decisively last week to be the state's next lieutenant governor.
The Oakland mayor's race is down to two candidates with city councilwoman Jean Quan taking a slim lead over former State Senator Don Perata.
Ranked-choice voting has made for a very complicated vote count in the supervisors race in San Francisco.
The Superior Court in Martinez is now involved in the vote count for a close East Bay congressional race.
Four days after he prematurely claimed victory, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is trailing by more than 17,000 votes in the race for state attorney general.
A private prison in western Michigan that closed when the state stopped housing youthful offenders there five years ago will soon be taking up to 2,600 California prisoners.
A San Francisco polling inspector has pleaded not guilty to stealing dozens of ballots and other elections material.
A Democratic congressman from the East Bay is maintaining a slight lead over his Republican challenger, with thousands of ballots still uncounted.
Nancy Pelosi, the nation's first female House speaker, said Friday she will try to keep her spot as leader of the House Democrats despite huge election losses that cost her party the majority.
Paul Krutko worked on high-profile projects such as the Earthquakes soccer stadium and a proposed downtown ballpark.
Approximately 75 voting ballots that disappeared when officials say a San Francisco polling inspector took off with them Tuesday have been found.
This week's midterm elections changed the political landscape in parts of the country. Randy Coleman of San Rafael asked this Good Question: How did states become red for Republicans and blue for Democrats?
Oakland residents passed a ballot measure on Tuesday that keeps the police department from having to layoff more officers.
California is set to send another 5,000 inmates to private prisons to reduce crowding in state-run lockups.
Governor-elect Jerry Brown made a brief stop at the state Capitol on Thursday, meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers from both parties to get an insider's glimpse at the state's fiscal problems.
