Elections

John Chiang is known as the wonk in the contest to be California's next governor—but sometimes having a nuanced position can be hard to distinguish from failing to state a position at all.

This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer “one-stop vote centers”—an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last mid-term elections. The 2016 Voter’s Choice Act establishes the vote centers in Madera, Napa, […]

How companies collect and share consumers' personal information is likely to grow into an expensive fight as election season unfolds in California.

California may face its share of thorny policy problems and political conflicts, but for Republican gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen, the solutions are actually “very simple.”

If there’s one thing that Antonio Villaraigosa wants voters to know about him, it’s this: “I’m not afraid to take on tough issues.”

Welcome to the wild ways of campaign money, circa 2018.

Delaine Eastin has staked herself out as the most progressive Democrat running for governor of California. But in a wide-ranging discussion with CALmatters in our Sacramento office, the former state schools superintendent shared some views that break from that orthodoxy.

Joe Sanberg says he's not running for anything in 2018, but the Gen-X investor says he has an immediate political goal: organizing and campaigning to end poverty in California.

It wasn’t meant to be for Doug Ose. This morning, the former Republican congressman announced that he won’t be running for the governor of California after all.

As California’s Democrats wrapped up their party’s annual convention Sunday, they left San Diego as they arrived: a party still fraying at the seams after the 2016 election, held together by one strong bond—a unifying dislike of President Donald Trump.