Today, the new Senate president pro tem — Democrat Monique Limón of Goleta in Santa Barbara County — is the upper house’s ...

California's two U.S. senators visited the California City Detention Facility Tuesday as questions mount over how detainees ...

California senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla are set to visit an ICE detention facility in California City for an ...

New Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón is the first Latina, first mother and only second woman to lead California’s upper ...

“Everything’s on the table until we choose, or make a decision that it shouldn’t be on the table,” Limón said. “But having a ...

Limón is two weeks into her new leadership role and has said she's in the process of figuring out where the state's other ...

As California’s new Senate President pro tem, Monique Limón, D-Goleta. began to address reporters ahead of her swearing-in ceremony Monday, a sports-style chant came through from the adjoining room: ...

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WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – California Senator Alex Padilla spoke during a Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee meeting last week noting a severe lack of Congressional oversight regarding actions by ...

For decades, firefighters facing some of the state’s most destructive wildfires worked without proper masks or respirators, despite evidence showing long-term health risks from wildfire smoke. That’s ...