Dana Rohrabacher

A Central Valley state Senate race is the latest oddball illustration of how California's "top two" primary can distort the field, confuse voters and raise suspicions.

Camp Fire's death toll, Denham loses to Harder, Orange County is about to turn blue, Linda Sanchez's family problem and Kirsten Olsen's obit for the GOP.

Election Day in California, turnout, Orange County, Legislature, supermajority, moderates, spending, death in childbirth, maternal mortality, greenwashing.

California and the House fight. How liberal are CA Democrats? The impact of a law giving prosecutors less power. Behind the UC strike. A cholera monument.

A recap of California congressional races this week: Democrats are raking it in, Rohrabacher and Rouda debate (twice!) and Duncan Hunter Jr. quadruples down.

Campaign money, 2018 election ad buys, Kevin McCarthy's 'Cherokee' in-law, Kamala Harris, smoking deaths, bad jobs, carpet recycling and California history.

Gavin Newsom and John Cox debate, Dana Rohrabacher and Russia, California's test scores and Jerry Brown's legacy, the gas tax repeal, Proposition 6, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Gov. Jerry Brown, electricity and the PUC.

California's school test scores, how the CURES opioid database happened, Jerry Brown's #MeToo bills, Orange County political money and teen pregnancy.

In California congressional campaign news this week: getting personal about sexual assault, scooping up millions of dollars, getting nasty with campaign ads, and rethinking Nancy Pelosi.

A Democrat turns on his own party’s committee. Fox News hosts turn on a sitting Republican congressman. A Trump son turns out to help a political ally—only to provide political fodder to the opposition. Here’s a quick recap of what happened this week across California’s 53 congressional districts: