As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of clean air and water, but he also dismissed climate change as a hoax, railed against zero emission electric vehicles and expressed contempt for the environmental regulations that seek to protect California rivers and estuaries.

The nation’s largest state by population has one of the longest vote-counting processes, both because of the sheer number of ballots and efforts to make voting easier.

President-elect Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Gov. Gavin Newsom "is trying to KILL our Nation's beautiful California." Newsom calls it Trump's "tired, old playbook of grievances.

The famously liberal state of California voted with conservative groups on a flurry of propositions, including on crime penalties and minimum wage.

California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state’s progressive policies on climate change,

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their way to ousting two progressive district attorneys.

It appears inmates in California will continue to work for little or no pay, as tallies released Thursday show voters opposed Proposition 6, a bid to change the state constitution to outlaw involuntary servitude in state prisons. No on Proposition 6 led 54.6% to 45.4%

Launching his first salvo less than 36 hours after former President Trump was again elected to the White House, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday convened a special session of the state Legislature to increase legal funding to defend civil rights,

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that he will convene a special session of the legislature in response to Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election, which Newsom said threatened his state's values.

AD-70, an Orange County-only district, covers the cities of Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Los Alamitos, Midway City, Rossmoor, Stanton and Westminster. The district encompasses Little Saigon in northwestern Orange County, home to the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

In the year to July 2022, the population of California declined by 0.3 percent, while the U.S. population as a whole grew and some Republican-controlled states such as Florida and Texas saw considerable population increases.