Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a newcomer to the California Legislature, wants to retake power from Democrats with his unapologetically brash, Trump-inspired conservatism. So why do so many Republican insiders dislike him?

Will this GOP bill targeting undocumented immigrant sex traffickers make it through a Legislature controlled by a Democratic supermajority?

Do they fight for unconditional fight for wildfire victims in their home state? Or fall in line behind President Trump?

All the talk about attaching conditions to California’s federal disaster aid have placed the state’s Republican members of Congress in a quandary.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the subcomittee’s chair and a Trump loyalist who has frequently clashed with Garcia, called Trump’s DOGE effort a “mandate from the American people” to “eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement within federal agencies.

Trump has left the Republican faithful scrambling to explain and defend his actions beyond blind cult-of-personality loyalty. With the slim GOP majorities in Congress, that's not politically manageabl

The OC GOP’s job is making sure Trump’s policies are sold to voters with a local spin, said one political consultant.

A new House bill would make it a federal crime to “cause a wildfire, further the spread of a wildfire, or attempt to do either,” according to the bill’s sponsors.

California will help lead a coalition of states in suing to block a White House budget office order halting "all federal financial assistance."

Yet, one of the 26 executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office specifically addressed the delta smelt. The directive, “Putting People Over Fish,” ordered his administration to look into ways to better allow California residents and businesses to pull from the water in the state’s San Joaquin River Basin.

California lawmakers in the State Assembly held their first hearing on proposals that are meant to prepare for legal battles with President Donald Trump and his administration, while also providing legal and support services to the state's immigrant population.

COLUMN. The US president thinks the cause of the fires in Los Angeles is clear: The Democrats's defense of the 'delta smelt,' a small freshwater fish threatened with extinction, which deprived Los Angeles of water during the fires,