Bob Blumenfield

SACRAMENTO — California's financial picture is much brighter than Gov. Jerry Brown suggested in his latest spending plan, according to the Legislature's top budget advisor, who said the state will have $3.2 billion more at its disposal than the...

SACRAMENTO — California has been flooded with revenue this tax season and is on track to finish the fiscal year with a surplus of billions of dollars, according to officials. State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in...

SACRAMENTO -- An Assembly subcommittee voted Wednesday to restore $418 million to California's judiciary, but not before one lawmaker shared some tough words for the state's court system. “While the state grappled with a budget crisis, court...

The headline on this post has been changed from the original, as explained below. Voters in northeast Los Angeles picked former state Assemblyman Felipe J. Fuentes III (D-Sylmar) in March to represent them on the City Council, but that job won't begin...

Hundreds are expected to rally outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday to protest broad cuts to the county court system, including the closure of 10 regional courthouses. The Save Our Courts Coalition -- comprised of......

Saying that a Los Angeles County Superior Court plan to reduce the number of courts handling landlord disputes "shuts the courthouse doors on many of the county's most vulnerable residents," several legal aid organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday...

Three current and former state lawmakers won their races for Los Angeles City Council outright while two others were heading into runoffs, raising the possibility that nearly seven of the council's 15 seats could be held by ex-Sacramento veterans....

City Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel remained ahead of the pack in the race for mayor of Los Angeles with all city precincts reporting....

City Councilman Eric Garcetti edged past Controller Wendy Greuel in Tuesday's primary election, emerging as the top vote-getter in one of the lowest turnouts in memory, moving the race to a May runoff between the City Hall veterans. Garcetti received........

The Times' political reporter Seema Mehta will join L.A. Now Live at 9 a.m. Wednesday to discuss the results of the primary election and look ahead to the May runoff....

In the slew of races for Los Angeles City Council, incumbents Paul Koretz on the Westside and Joe Buscaino in the Harbor district jumped out to major leads, according to an early tally of mail-in ballots....

Los Angeles on Tuesday begins a far-reaching overhaul of its city government, voting for a new mayor and controller, and voting as well for city attorney and to fill more than half the City Council and nearly half the school board and Community College...