Tony Cardenas

Gang violence is to Los Angeles politics as the weather is to conversation: Everybody talks about it, and nobody ever does anything about it. Policing occasionally provides a temporary surcease, as it did last week when a drive-by murder next to a...

Congressional leaders are in California this week to help raise money for candidates in hot congressional races. The state is seen as a key to which party will control the House of Representatives next year....

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan to roll back retirement benefits of newly hired employees won fina approval Friday, despite opposition from an array of labor leaders across Southern California. The City Council cast its second and final vote...

Mitt Romney is being backed by three Southern California congressmen. Reps. Jerry Lewis of Redlands, Ken Calvert of Corona and Brian Bilbray of Carlsbad have officially endorsed Mitt Romney....

Michael Dukakis will appear at a fundraiser for Rep. Brad Sherman. Other congressional candidates rack up endorsements....

The Los Angeles City Council voted this week to terminate the lease for the Latino Theater Company and the Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture at the downtown L.A. Theatre Center. The city owns the LATC, which is located on Spring Street, and has...

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday decided to oppose state legislation that would shift control of LA/Ontario International Airport from the city to a new authority made up of Inland Empire officials. The council voted 11 to 0 against......

A National Football League team would have to commit to remaining in a proposed downtown Los Angeles stadium for 20 to 30 years for the city to approve the project, a key city negotiator said Monday. The city will seek......

The Los Angeles City Council is expected to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who killed a baby boy in Van Nuys over the weekend. Councilman Tony Cardenas, who represents the district,......

The Los Angeles City Council- voted unanimously today to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc, a making it the largest city in the nation to have made such a move, and granting the Web search giant a victory in its quest to become a software provider...

A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted today to seek a law banning veterinarians from declawing cats, saying the procedure constituted cruelty to animals. The council’s Public Safety Committee unanimously recommended that City Atty....

Five Los Angeles City Council members this week pledged to donate $2,000 each to help storm victims in El Salvador. Council Members Jose Huizar, Eric Garcetti (council president), Ed Reyes, Tony Cardenas and Richard Alarcon promised a donation totaling...