2024 Elections

Proposition J would create an oversight body to monitor city government spending on programs helping children and young people.

Proposition I would improve retirement packages for 9-1-1 dispatchers, as well as nurses who transition from temporary to full-time roles.

Proposition H would lower the retirement age for San Francisco firefighters from 58 to 55.

Proposition G would reduce rent in hundreds of units serving extremely low-income seniors, families and people with disabilities.

Proposition F allows retirement eligible police officers to stay on the job while receiving both their salary and pension for up to five years.

Proposition E would create a five member task force to assess San Francisco’s many commissions and recommend whether any should be altered or eliminated to improve local governance.

Proposition D would dramatically alter governance in San Francisco, slashing City Hall commissions from the current 130 to a maximum of 65, retaining 20 major commissions.

Proposition C aims to fight corruption in the San Francisco government by creating an inspector general to investigate fraud, waste and abuse.

We are happy to bring you a landlord/tenant broadcast where, in addition to the usual array of landlord tenant issues, there is a controversial ballot measure with varying takes on just what the ballot measure would accomplish.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by three of the best landlord tenant lawyers around: Jessica Chylik from San Francisco, Paul Lee from San Mateo, and Sal Timpano from San Francisco.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.

Idaho has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Project 2025 could make that ban a reality across the country, according to Guardian reporter Carmen Sherman.

Some residents in the Bay Area have been receiving text messages regarding their voter registration status in a possible scam to get their personal information.

More than $5 million in donations has poured into campaigns for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors races so far, with even more money expected before this November’s elections.

J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate and former venture capitalist, returns to Silicon Valley today to bolster campaign funds through his network of tech moguls and conservatives.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted four-to-one on Tuesday to approve the final agreement for Measure QQ. This would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in Oakland and Berkeley school board elections. But, it’s unclear if it will make it onto the November ballot.

California Forever pulled its ballot measure for a planned city in rural Solano County on Monday, just one day before it was up for a vote by county supervisors.

Tom LoBianco, a longtime national political reporter, whose been covering Washington for 20 years and currently the co-founder and editor of 24sight News. KALW News Editor Sunni Khalid asked him about this historic moment with President Biden withdrawing from his re-election bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee.

Tech CEOs and business leaders were the main sources of funding behind a contentious Silicon Valley congressional recount earlier this year.

Congressman Adam Schiff urges Biden to drop out of the Presidential race due to “serious concerns” about Biden’s ability to win against Trump this fall.

The Berkeley City Council this week approved an ordinance that gives 16- and 17-year olds the ability to vote for school board members in the city this fall. We went to UC Berkeley’s campus and asked around: Why should youth be able to vote?

A controversial ballot measure challenging restrictions on oil and gas wells in California will not be on the ballot in November.