Independent political action committees were big spenders for the 2022 mayoral candidates.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California Democrats are counting on abortion rights to drive their voters to the polls. But some may still care more about crime, homelessness and inflation.

Smith, who started with the Sheriff's Office in 1973 and has been sheriff since 1998, blasted attacks against her tenure as politically motivated.

The public defender failed to disclose that he previously argued in support of Stanford student Brock Turner’s “lenient” sentence in June 2016.