California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday. Padilla, a son of Mexican immigrants, will be the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris resigned from her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are inaugurated. In a video posted to Twitter, Harris ...

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been selected by Governor Gavin Newsom to fill the U.S. Senate seat opened up by Kamala Harris. Padilla, long rumored as a favorite for the position, ...

Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) announced Tuesday that he will remain in the U.S. Senate and not run for governor of California next year. Padilla made the announcement at the U.S. Capitol, ...

A concerted campaign to draft Padilla spoke to the unsettled state of the field. Speaking from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, California Sen. Alex Padilla said it was “with a full heart” and “more ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California will not run for governor in next year’s highly watched race to succeed Gov.

OPINION: Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid for California governor could get a boost if House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi endorses ...

A busy week in California politics. California voters went to the polls and carried Governor Newsom's Proposition 50 to a resounding victory, redrawing the state's congressional maps ahead of the 2026 ...

Amid well-publicized struggles over staffing and budget cuts at the National Park Service, two U.S. senators have a somewhat ...

Sen. Alex Padilla finally put the rumors about a potential run for California governor to rest: He’s not running. “It is with a full heart and even more commitment than ever that I’m choosing to not ...