The proposal would have levied a one-time 5% tax on Californians with wealth above $1 billion.

The campaign to defeat Proposition 40 was, in the weeks before Election Day, spending $1 million a day to convince voters not to adopt the one-time tax on billionaires' assets.

Democratic challenger Eric Jones leads 27-year incumbent Rep. Mike Thompson by roughly 7,600 votes in California's 4th Congressional District.

Richard Barrera, president of the San Diego Unified school board and the likely next California superintendent of public instruction, leads in 33 of California's 58 counties as of Sunday night. His opponent,

California voters have rejected an attempt to overhaul and roll back decades-old environmental rules to make it easier to build highways, housing, and clean energy projects. Known as Proposition 45, the proposed changes to California’s Environmental Quality Act failed with 55.9% of voters rejecting the measure, with 77% of the votes in as of Monday […]

A Northern California judge on Monday permanently barred Shasta County from implementing a voter-approved initiative that sought to dramatically reshape voting in the conservative stronghold.

Gov. Cox was the only river basin governor not on the ballot this year. California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming all elected new governors, while Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs won her reelection.