Executive orders signed in the first few days of a presidency tend to reflect the incoming president’s positions on hot-button issues.

Sam Liccardo’s comment comes as chaos grips Washington D.C., where a mob contesting the 2020 election results stormed the U.S. Capitol.

The latest relief package offers about four times as much as the $13.5 billion in aid that went to K-12 schools under the CARES Act.

In Padilla and Weber, Californians get their first Latino U.S. Senator and first Black female secretary of state.

Alex Padilla will be the first Southern Californian in nearly three decades to serve as one of the state’s two representatives in the Senate.

The election showed us more than just who voters want as president; it showed the nation has turned a corner on pot.

The former Sunnyvale mayor, U.S. Navy Bronze Star recipient and intellectual property attorney starts his newest gig in a few short weeks.

For the Bay Area, the festivities took on greater resonance because of Kamala Harris, an Oakland native and now the first woman VP.

Now, with the presidential race still undecided, the state’s war over gig work could also sway the national conversation over the future of work.

Dear campaigns: consider spending a fraction of your research budget on socionomic analysis.  

On two other measures, California voters continued to distance themselves from the state’s tough-on-crime approach of prior decades.

Santa Clara County got off to a strong start with early voting, with 62 percent of ballots cast before the polls even opened today.

Not since the 1968 election that fractured the New Deal coalition have Americans faced choices as stark as those before them today.

In this map, each ZIP code is colored according to the candidate who amassed more individual contributions from its residents.

South Bay Labor has employed racist tactics to prevent minorities—including 1998 San Jose council hopeful Tony West—from securing office.

Stock-pickers seem to have already “priced in” a Democratic victory on Election Day when it comes to cannabis companies.