The Democrats said restricting Department of Homeland Security spending was essential to securing their votes, after their visit to the ICE facility.

SACRAMENTO – The California State Senate took a decisive step this week toward addressing a long-neglected public health concern, unanimously passing legislation to update the state’s 56-year-old air

The California Senate passed SB 747, the No Kings Act, which would allow people in California to sue federal law enforcement officers for violations of their constitutional rights.

The bill would create a first-in-the-nation legal pathway for residents to seek financial damages in state court.

The longest-ever government shutdown could be coming to an end soon, a welcome relief for the federal workers who’ve gone without pay to the Californians who’ve faced delays in key food benefits. In a 60-40 vote that saw some Democrats break with their ...

Tom Homan, acting director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, spells out then-President Donald Trump's immigration policy in 2018. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Dieog) Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly refused to tell the Senate ...

Both of California's U.S. senators visited the immigration detention facility in California City Tuesday, calling for better oversight to ensure detainees are being provided adequate care.

California senators voted against a deal reached Sunday to reopen the federal government, the first procedural step to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. A group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care ...

Today, the new Senate president pro tem — Democrat Monique Limón of Goleta in Santa Barbara County — is the upper house’s first Latina leader and the first mother who is leader of the Senate. And there are more female senators than males, 21 to 19.

A top federal election official who falsely claimed Democrats need “illegal citizens” to vote to win elections and publicly mused about committing voter fraud herself must rescind those statements or resign immediately, U.S. senators from Oregon and ...

Senate leaders have a bipartisan funding deal in hand but it remains to be seen whether they will avert a costly government shutdown as the clock ticks down toward Friday’s midnight deadline.