The primary election in California's gubernatorial contest is just over a month away, and the race remains wide open.

If you're planning to turn in your ballot on Election Day, you'll need to know these deadlines.

Some important deadlines and dates are coming up for voters planning to cast ballots for governor, mayor, congressional seats and other elected offices in the California primary election. The primary features several races that will determine which candidate will face off later this year in the November general election.

New reports show California's gubernatorial race is becoming contentious and expensive.

For California election officials tasked with enabling participatory democracy, these are now everyday realities -- from Riverside County, where Sheriff Chad Bianco seized more than 650,000 ballots from his own county's registrar of voters,

Shirley Weber says accuracy matters more than speed. Her GOP challenger says the delays undermine trust. It could take a month to certify June's results.

Californians will soon vote on who advances in the race for the Golden State’s next governor — an outcome that will determine the state's direction on issues ranging from housing and homelessness to crime, climate change, and the economy. The state ...

In his statement, Grundmann claims that “Israel ‘art students’ wired Twin Towers for 9/11 controlled demolition” and that “planes did NOT destroy towers. Israel did.”

The effort, though, may have an impact on a dueling campaign to tax California’s billionaires to offset federal healthcare cuts.

California’s notoriously long ballot-counting process has sown distrust in the state’s election systems. But experts can’t agree on how to speed up the process; some say a delayed result is better than potentially disenfranchising voters.

Ahead of Tuesday's debate in the California governor's race, it's still a wide-open contest, CBS News' latest poll finds.