California announced a multistate lawsuit challenging federal conditions attached to public-safety funding that the state says would pressure states to follow federal preferences in election administration.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta renewed opposition to the Trump administration’s tariff program, while a U.S. trade report cited 59 countries and the European Union over alleged failures to address forced-labor imports.
The California Department of Justice says its Police Shooting Investigation Team has begun an independent investigation into an April 1 officer-involved shooting in Los Angeles involving the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
California lawmakers returned from summer recess Aug. 3 as the Senate Appropriations Committee scheduled a bill hearing and the Legislature entered a series of August deadlines.
Sacramento police said Ricardo Barraza, 51, was booked into Sacramento County Main Jail on homicide-related charges on the evening of July 2, 2026.
Los Angeles County has identified no local cases linked to a multijurisdictional cyclosporiasis outbreak, though the CDC had received 1,645 laboratory-confirmed U.S. case reports as of July 13.
San Diego’s Commission on Police Practices updated its public dataset on complaints and evaluated allegations involving the San Diego Police Department on July 16, 2026.
The California Supreme Court has approved replacing the current California Bar Examination with the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, with the first administration scheduled for July 2028.
The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal on Aug. 1, adding the two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner before MLB’s Aug. 3 deadline.
The City of San Diego announced July 27 that it had secured nearly $12 million for a green-infrastructure project in the Oak Park neighborhood. The available announcement does not yet specify the project’s design, construction schedule or funding source.
Sacramento’s proposed half-cent Safe Streets and Affordable Transit tax will not appear on the November 2026 ballot after the signature-check process found too few valid signatures.
The City of Sacramento says it secured more than $31 million for the Rio Linda Senior Housing Project, a development associated with housing for seniors and veterans.
California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber announced July 21 that the statewide voter information guide for the Nov. 3, 2026, general election is available for public review.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for Los Angeles County on June 20 in response to the ongoing Boyle Heights warehouse fire, directing state agencies to support local response and public-health protection.
Candidate filing for Sacramento’s Nov. 3, 2026 general election is scheduled to run through Aug. 7 in four City Council districts, though the city’s live Clerk records should be checked for current candidate status.
Sacramento County Public Health and the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District have confirmed the county’s first reported human West Nile virus case of 2026.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 on July 1 not to place a proposed rollback of the city’s high-value real-estate transfer tax on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.
California began statewide implementation of the Behavioral Health Services Act in July 2026, extending Proposition 1’s behavioral-health reforms to all 58 counties.
A proposed Sacramento initiative filed with the city clerk would add a half-cent transactions-and-use tax on taxable sales and create a local transportation funding program, but it has not been confirmed for the November ballot.
San Diego’s City Clerk has opened a public-examination period for municipal election materials through Aug. 7, the same date candidate filing closes for county-administered offices in the Nov. 3 general election.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 8-6 to reject a proposed charter reform that would have expanded its authority over LAPD policy. A separate proposal on voting by longtime noncitizen residents was pulled from the November ballot for further discussion.
Los Angeles County has listed a special Measure G Review Task Force meeting for Aug. 7 at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration as implementation work continues on the voter-approved charter reform.
