On suspense file day, legislators killed about 220 California bills on issues including education, health care, housing and workers. Story from @CalMatters.

A 23-year-old Costa Mesa man who allegedly sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat while storming Jan. 6 Insurrection has admitted to helping to disrupt a joint session of Congress. Christian Alexander Secor pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding during a hearing on Thursday in a Washington D.

A 23-year-old Costa Mesa man who allegedly sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat while storming Jan. 6 Insurrection has admitted to helping to disrupt a joint session of Congress. Christian Alexander Secor pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding during a hearing on Thursday in a Washington D.

No ban on offshore drilling in state waters. No Election Day holiday. No speed cameras. Those measures were among dozens of bills that died in the California Legislature on Thursday, without debate, as the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees moved hundreds of bills through a procedural bottleneck for legislation with significant fiscal impacts.

Election Day is June 7, but residents can cast their votes before then by mail or by waiting to go to a vote center in-person.

There are five candidates on the June 7 ballot who want to be elected attorney general. They are incumbent Rob Bonta, a Democrat appointed to the position last year; attorney/business owner Eric Early and general counsel Nathan Hochman,

Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed revisions to his 2022-23 budget in the midst of an unprecedented $97.5 billion surplus. Despi

After hearing hours of heated debate, the California Coastal Commission voted against a controversial plan by the company Poseidon Water to build a huge desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

California Coastal Commission is expected to consider final approval of the Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce plans to allocate $30 million to the Fire Integrated Real-Time Intelligence System (FIRIS) when he unveils California’s revised budget on Friday, May 13.

The planes will become a permanent part of the state’s firefighting arsenals, according to officials from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

Many city council members across Orange County have quietly approved policies regarding their police department’s military equipment stockpiles this past month to comply with a new state law.

There are six candidates on the June 7 ballot running to be mayor of Chula Vista, San Diego County’s second-largest city. They are businessman Ammar Campa-Najjar, U.S. Army Maj. Spencer Cash, community college executive Zaneta Encarnacion,

With rising crime fears, a homelessness crisis and soaring prices, Republicans hope California's troubles will help create a pathway for some rare wins in the heavily Democratic state. Mail-in ballots

Choi is a Korean American immigrant, former educator and longtime officeholder at the local and state levels; Petrie-Norris, who’s seeking a third term, worked in finance and marketing

This week’s leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would unwind abortion rights has sparked concerns that popular federal protections for gay marriage, which rely on a similar

San Clemente city officials are looking to regulate the repair and sale of bicycles and bicycle parts in public areas as a way to address bike thefts and growing homeless encampments with reported

Gillott told Belmont Shore Patch in 2011 that he’d been a lifeguard for most of his life, starting when he was 17 years old working as one in Huntington Beach. He was hired as a seasonal lifeguard in Long Beach at 18 years old and was hired full time in ...

BJ Penn added Tito Ortiz to his list of featured speakers for his next gubernatorial fundraiser as the former UFC star runs for Governor of Hawaii.

After four years as Riverside’s top administrator, Al Zelinka will become Huntington Beach’s new city manager.