More than a handful of races are still too close to call, largely because the state’s commitment to vote-by-mail balloting guarantees the process will be slow.

Derek Tran took a slight edge over Rep. Michelle Steel in California’s 45th congressional district on Saturday, Nov. 16, nearly two weeks after Election Day. Saturday’s count showed Tran leading by 36 votes.

Trump’s extremist economic agenda is going to tank the housing market and housing construction,” Sen. Scott Wiener, one of the legislature’s loudest YIMBY voices, said in an interview. Trump has offered few specific housing policy proposals and when CalMatters reached out to his campaign,

Democratic Rep. Jim Costa was re-elected to serve another term in California's 21st Congressional District after over a week of counting ballots.

A judge on Friday rejected California’s lawsuit against the city of Huntington Beach over a local measure allowing officials to require voter identification at the polls.

A San Francisco Bay Area district attorney recalled in the Nov. 5 election filed criminal charges this week against 11 jail staff for a 2021 in-custody death.

Nearly half of voters in Vice President Kamala Harris' home state of California say they would be open to supporting her if she decided to run for governor in two years, according to a poll

GOING WITH THE FLOW — Trump made a point on the campaign trail of promising the Central Valley’s Republican-leaning farmers he’d “turn on the faucet” for them, even if he had no chance of winning California’s electoral college votes. Read what they’re planning to do with their newfound power in last night’s California Climate.

THE BUZZ: SUPER MINORITY — Turns out, the path to a Democratic House majority doesn’t run through California after all. Democrats had high hopes that they’d have enough flippable seats in California to win the speaker’s gavel. Instead, they’re ...

Republicans and Democrats are clawing for crucial U.S. House victories in California even as the GOP has now clinched control of the chamber

If those are any indication, a Trump presidency will likely make it harder for immigrants, including mixed-status households, and other low-income Californians to access subsidized housing. It could also complicate efforts to build housing in the state that’s specifically designated as affordable.