Alex Padilla

NBC 7 political reporter Priya Sridhar spoke one-on-one with the new United States Senator from California.

NBC 7’s political reporter Priya Sridhar spoke one on one with the new United States Senator from California

As part of President Joe Biden’s immigration overhaul, California Senator Alex Padilla wants to help remove the term “illegal alien” from the U.S. code.

Three new senators were sworn into office Wednesday after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, securing the majority for Democrats in the Senate and across a unified government to tackle the new president’s agenda at a time of unprecedented national challenges. In a first vote, the Senate confirmed Biden’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines. Senators worked into the...

Hours after being sworn in to office, Vice President Kamala Harris performed one of her first official duties, swearing in Senators Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and her own successor, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Alex Padilla resigned Monday as California secretary of state and was formally appointed by the governor to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will be appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, sources confirmed to NBC Bay Area on Tuesday.

Wall Street was set for a slightly higher open Wednesday, reversing an overnight decline in futures.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will succeed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to fill the U.S. Senate being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, with California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

California’s more than 5.6 million independent voters will be allowed to vote in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, but not in the Republican contest, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Monday.

In this episode of Politically Speaking, NBC 7’s Alex Presha welcomes Rory Devine to talk about how released court records raise questions about the validity of Poway shooter’s license to purchase a gun.

A Senate report on Russian interference in U.S. elections highlights one of the biggest challenges to preventing foreign intrusions in American democracy: the limited powers and ability of the federal government to protect elections run by state and local officials. That has given fuel to those who argue for a larger federal role. The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday issued...

Outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown sued Thursday to protect one of his signature actions in office, a voter-approved measure that allows most prison inmates to seek earlier release and participate in rehabilitation programs.

California saw nearly 1.5 million new registered voters for the upcoming general election in November.

At least one non-citizen and perhaps many more were improperly registered to vote in California by the Department of Motor Vehicles, prompting the secretary of state to demand a new investigation of the embattled agency Monday.

The U.S. homeland security secretary said on Saturday there are no signs that Russia is targeting this year’s midterm elections with the same “scale or scope” it targeted the 2016 presidential election. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at a convention of state secretaries of state, an event that’s usually a low-key affair highlighting voter registration, balloting devices...

California’s secretary of state says a measure that would expand the ability of local governments to enact rent controls on residential properties has qualified for the Nov. 6 ballot.

A long-odds effort to split California into three states has qualified for the November ballot, state officials said Tuesday.

Republicans are now the third largest bloc of voters in California.