There are more than 10 weeks to go until the November election, but the drama in Huntington Beach surrounding a city attorney race and tangential ballot measure is already heating up. A pair of recently filed lawsuits challenge how a charter amendment and ...

From a cannabis business tax to city attorney qualifications, Huntington Beach voters are tasked with deciding an eclectic mix of ballot measures in November. The first charter amendment measure before Huntington Beach voters would allow the city to ...

The amount of interest, the lack of interest and so much more. Here is a look at who is running in city council races across Orange County.

Scott Field, the former assistant city attorney who filed an age discrimination lawsuit in 2019, is running for the position.

This fall, Huntington Beach voters could be asked to decide, yet again, on the future of cannabis sales in their city. Although a ballot measure in the primary elections failed last month ...

Should the Huntington Beach City Council be able to contract with outside counsel if it feels the city attorney has a conflict of interest? That question will be before voters in the fall. The City Council voted nearly unanimously during its Tuesday agenda ...

The Huntington Beach city clerk and treasurer jobs could soon be appointed positions rather than elected. The Huntington Beach City Council has moved to place changes to those two staff ...

Some public educators called request ‘insulting’ and ‘intrusive,’ but mandatory requirement (and public shaming?) might change holdouts’ minds

Tom Umberg in this heavily blue district. SD-36: Assemblywoman Janet Nguyen and Huntington Beach Councilwoman Kim Carr are battling for this newly drawn coastal state Senate district. SD-38: There’s no incumbent in the race for this Senate district that ...

Column: ‘Simply put, most cities in Orange County have not taken proactive steps to protect government against undue influence from large individual donors or special interests.’

Local leaders are calling for audits and scrambling to return political contributions after learning of the FBI investigation.

Big money is pouring into the OCBE races, with the California Charter Schools Association contributting $225,000 so far to the three incumbents.

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.

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

Major fundraising committees on both sides of the aisle are already throwing serious money at the primary race for the newly drawn 47th Congressional District seat in coastal Orange County.

The winner of SD-36 will represent every beach city and part of a few communities in north county. Both primary candidates will face off in November.

Kim Carr won’t have to worry about being recalled from her current job, as a member of the Huntington Beach Council, as she runs for election to the California State Senate. Likewise, two

Last week, the House of Representatives voted 220-204 to approve the MORE Act, which would end the federal prohibition of marijuana. While the bill certainly isn’t perfect, it’s preferable to

States like Georgia and Maryland have already suspended their gas taxes, because it’s not hard to do if the political will and money is the

Two dozen members of Save Surf City met the deadline of Wednesday, Feb. 23, by showing up at City Hall with three sets of petitions to oust council members Kim Carr, Dan Kalmick and Mike Posey.