$110 million Laguna Beach mansion sale topples Orange County price record

The record-shattering sale comes as wealthy buyers shift from Los Angeles to Orange County’s quieter, guard-gated beach ...

How a Southern California couple may have helped swing Northern California House primary

The $110,000 spent by a Southern California family on three dark horse GOP rivals, might have boxed the Republican ...

Judge denies Biden’s bid to block release of transcripts linked to special counsel inquiry

A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a ...

Squishy votes and bad math leave Inland Empire Republicans exposed

It’s not looking like the GOP is in much of a position to fend off the supermajority or turn the political tide in California ...

Phil Barber

The Press Democrat. His work has included exposing forced sterilizations at the Sonoma State Home, wage theft at a string of Subway franchises and the implosion of the LeFever Mattson real estate ...

LA County report: Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will put 2,500 local jobs at risk

A report from Los Angeles County says Paramount’s merger for Warner Bros. Discovery may place about 2,500 local workers at ...

Caltech on edge as its 70-year lock on NASA’s JPL goes up for bid

Caltech is buckling down to prepare for an arduous bidding process to win the contract to manage NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena — a relationship it thought would always be a lock for the ...