Here's a look back at the most noteworthy stories that took place in and around La Jolla throughout 2025 — big and small.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani isn't even in office yet, but many Staten Island lawmakers are concerned and ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. But all this ...

Following the United States Supreme Court's decision to reject Texas' lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory, the chairman of the state's Republican party suggested leaving the ...

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School districts in a growing number of U.S. states are trying to break off from existing districts. These "seceding" areas, as experts refer to the practice, tend to be wealthier and whiter than the ...

The Issue: Staten Island politicians renewing calls for the borough to secede from New York City. Secession is not the best option for Staten Island (“NYC-Ya!” Aug. 31). As an independent county, we ...

The Balkinization site is running a symposium on two important new books on secession: Timothy William Waters's Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale ...

California’s famous chronicler Carey McWilliams once wrote that some see “this highly improbable state” as more illusion than reality. Perhaps that explains its residents’ perpetual efforts to shake ...

They don't want to take their country back. They just want to leave it behind. As the dust settles in the wake of President Obama's decisive reelection last Tuesday, the White House petition website ...

Los Angeles voters spurned both San Fernando Valley and Hollywood secession proposals Tuesday, deciding overwhelmingly to keep the nation’s second-largest city intact. In the Valley, the spawning ...