Sen. Ed Hernandez

Amid the nationwide debate about race and justice, the latest attempt to repeal California's ban on affirmative action programs.

In 2016, fewer than 6% of California adolescents reported trying cigarettes, down from 19% in 2003. Why on earth did legislators feel the need to intervene in such a hugely positive youth trend? For no apparent reason, they did. The results aren't pretty.

A California law reveals a big drug price hike, legal weed a year later, a dirty trick may have cost the GOP an Assembly seat and a Brown-Newsom translator.

Former ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis will become California’s first woman elected lieutenant governor, charging to victory over state Sen. Ed Hernandez in a race that pitted her campaign cash and diplomatic resume against his labor connections and legislative experience. The highest ranking among a record-setting three women to be elected Tuesday to California constitutional […]

Several statewide races this year pit NorCal against SoCal, testing the political power and competing priorities of the Golden State’s two most populous regions.

Proposition 13 turns 40, labor shuns a Democrat over the gas tax, mental illness and ER visits, a lieutenant governor face-off and children's hospitals.

California lieutenant governor candidates Ed Hernandez and Eleni Kounalakis face off on education, housing, their priorities and qualifications and more.

For voters who have trouble distinguishing between the positions of lieutenant governor candidates Eleni Kounalakis and Ed Hernandez—or remembering what the so-called “Lite Gov” does, anyway—their backgrounds provide a contrast.