We’re just over a month away from the start of the next session of Congress and Democrats have taken a commanding majority of the House. Republicans, meanwhile, strengthened their majority in the Senate.

The Democratic party got a boost of confidence this midterm election.

Wildfire season is year-round in California. In November alone, dozens of lives have been claimed, more than a hundred thousand acres have been burned and thousands of structures have been destroyed between the Camp and the Woolsey fires.

Alex Villanueva scored an upset win Monday in the race for Los Angeles County sheriff, making Jim McDonnell the first incumbent to lose the seat in more than a century.