Connie Conway

The results of Tuesday's election has given California Republicans little to be excited about. Gov. Jerry Brown's tax hikes were approved by voters, and Democrats are poised to gain supermajorities in each house of the Legislature. George Skelton says in....

Assembly Speaker John Perez gets vote of confidence to remain as leader...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats are on the cusp of a coveted supermajority in both the Assembly and Senate, giving them the rare power to raise taxes without any Republican support. No single party has held such a supermajority in...

Republican leaders in the California Legislature are already planning their next steps if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike plan next week....

Assembly Republican leader Connie Conway is urging donors in the Sacramento suburbs to push the author of Proposition 8 out of a heated Assembly race and rally around the GOPincumbent. In a letter to donors this week, Conway said Andy Pugno, author of...

The California Legislature passed a $92.1-billion budget on Friday in a vote that avoided the drama and delay that long has characterized the Capitol’s annual spending debate. The vote, largely a foregone conclusion, was almost completely along...

California Republicans are working to save a state healthcare program for almost 900,000 poor children, and they may have found one place where they actually have some leverage over the budget....

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown released a plan to close California's rapidly growing deficit by switching state offices to a four-day week, slashing welfare benefits and healthcare for the poor and relying on a variety of short-term fixes -- all in the...

Is California ready for a new round of taxes?...

ov. Jerry Brown warned of more painful spending cuts after the state's projected budget deficit jumped to $16 billion, much larger than the $9.2 billion estimated in January....

The Judicial Council, the policy arm of the California court system, has come out against legislation that would fast-track legal challenges to development projects under the state's landmark environmental law....

Republicans want to be known as the "party of yes" in Sacramento. And one of the first things they want to do is convince Californians to vote no on Gov. Jerry Browns' proposed tax hikes....