Traci Park is maintaining her lead in Los Angeles Council's 11th District Seat race, according to the latest results from the county clerk's o…

LOS ANGELES   - West Hollywood City Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath again expanded her lead today over state Sen. Bob Hertzberg in the race for a…

LOS ANGELES   - Rep. Karen Bass, who has represented Los Angeles at the state level and in Congress, will be the first woman and the second Bl…

LOS ANGELES  - Rep. Karen Bass again expanded her lead over developer Rick Caruso today in the race to be Los Angeles' next mayor, with an adv…

LOS ANGELES -Sheriff Alex Villanueva conceded defeat today in his re-election bid, but in doing so, he again lashed out at his critics for pus…

LOS ANGELES  - Katy Young Yaroslavsky, a former political aide, is set to represent the Los Angeles City Council's 5th District after her oppo…

LOS ANGELES -Rep. Karen Bass grew her lead over developer Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayoral race to nearly 30,000 votes today, according …

Traci Park is maintaining her 10 point lead in Los Angeles Council's 11th District Seat race, according to the latest results from the county …

Traci Park is maintaining her 10 point lead in Los Angeles Council's 11th District Seat race, according to the latest results from the county …

LOS ANGELES - Traci Park is maintaining her lead over Erin Darling, according to the latest results from the county clerk's office. She remain…

LOS ANGELES -Results for several Los Angeles city and county seats are still coming in and it may be several days before candidates are declar…

VENICE - Traci Park was holding a comfortable lead over Erin Darling today and appeared headed toward victory in the race to replace City Coun…

LOS ANGELES  - The expensive and at-times contentious race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles remained in a virtual 50-50 deadlock today …

VENICE -The Westside of Los Angeles will get a new City Council member in the Nov. 8 election with Councilman Mike Bonin stepping down after t…

LOS ANGELES  - State Sen. Bob Hertzberg and West Hollywood City Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath vie for an open seat on the Los Angeles County Bo…

LOS ANGELES   - Assemblywoman Tina Simone McKinnor was set for a Tuesday rematch with Lawndale Mayor Robert Pullen-Miles in her bid to retain …

LOS ANGELES -Over the last two years, The Westside Current has chronicled the spiraling public safety crisis on Los Angeles’s Westside. In fac…

LOS ANGELES -Election Day isn't technically until Nov. 8, but early voting is already underway in Los Angeles County, and dozens of vote cente…

PLAYA VISTA- Upwards of 1500 people -- many wearing Bass for Mayor t-shirts and/or with children in tow -- came out to the Bandshell at Playa …

LOS ANGELES -Rick Caruso, one of two candidates vying for the next mayoral seat, says he can and will create change and clean up the city of L…

Heads up Westsiders. Monday, October 24, is the deadline to register online or with a voter-registration card.

VENICE- Something significant happened last summer when Sheriff Alex Villanueva visited the Venice Boardwalk. It made a substantial impact on …

SAWTELLE -On October 15th, the West L.A. Community Coalition, Sawtelle Neighborhood Council and West L.A. Neighborhood Council held what they …

LOS ANGELES - CD11 has emerged from eight years of Mike Bonin's representation with a case of political PTSD likely unequaled in the entire city. 

Sam Yebri came to the west side of Los Angeles with his family as a refugee from Iran 40 years ago, and through decades of hard work and dedic…

VENICE  According to publicly available court records, in 2016 and 2017 CD 11 City Council candidate Erin Darling questioned the credibility o…

VENICE- It's fair to say that nowhere in Los Angeles has the quality of life fallen harder than on the Westside. That's why it's crucial to ge…

One of the few bright spots in Los Angeles politics over the past several years has been Ron Galperin's masterful use of the office of City Co…

Over the past several years, Los Angeles city government has been beset by numerous scandals.  One of the most notable involved the City Attor…

LOS ANGELES: Pressure continued to grow on Los Angeles City Council members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to resign in a racism scandal surrou…

LOS ANGELES -One of the most critical races facing voters in 2022 is in County District Three. Current District Three representative Sheila Ku…

UNIVERSAL CITY  - Los Angeles mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso are part of the growing movement calling for the resignation of th…

Phone banks, door knocking and canvassing will become more prominent as election day nears and mail in ballots start to arrive.  Also expect s…

LOS ANGELES   - Rep. Karen Bass has apologized for remarks she made during  Thursday's Los Angeles mayoral debate accusing her opponent, devel…

LOS ANGELES  - Los Angeles mayoral candidates Rep. Karen Bass and developer Rick Caruso have contrasting ideas on how to address crime and hom…

WESTCHESTER -Another former CD11 candidate is throwing their support behind Traci Park. Mat Smith said he's putting all his backing behind Par…

The Westside is about to get their chance to cast their votes in the 2022 elections. Here’s all the information you need to cast your ballot a…

VENICE- Traci Park is pulling support from long-time community service volunteer Mike Newhouse. 

 LOS ANGELES  - As the race for Los Angeles mayor enters its final weeks, mayoral candidate Rick Caruso's anticipated ad blitz is under way, w…

Westside Current is ramping up our political roundup with just seven weeks until election day.

LOS ANGELES   - Laura Chick, a former Los Angeles city controller and councilwoman, sharply criticized the frontrunner in the race for the con…

After eight months, California’s legislative session is coming to a close this week with a final flurry of frantic activity. Lawmakers are rus…

LOS ANGELES  - Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso today criticized his opponent, Rep. Karen Bass, for backing city attorney hopeful Fai…

LOS ANGELES  - Rep. Karen Bass surpassed billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso today as ballot-counting continued in the mayoral prima…

VENICE- Two candidates in the Council District 11 seat appear to be headed to the November runoffs. 

LOS ANGELES   - The five-member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will get at least one new face by year's end, with Supervisor Sheila K…

LOS ANGELES   - While the race for mayor has taken center stage ahead of Tuesday's primary election in Los Angeles, two other citywide posts a…

LOS ANGELES  - An additional 522 vote centers opened throughout Los Angeles County during the second weekend of early voting for Tuesday's pri…

  LOS ANGELES -Unseating an incumbent Los Angeles County sheriff is no easy task, but eight people are vying to do just that in Tuesday's elec…

If you haven’t noticed, your mail carrier certainly has: Election season has arrived in California and with it, the regular flood of political…