Advocacy groups said the new California Crime Victims Fund will provide lifesaving support for people needing shelter after ...

Violent California inmate Caleb Duerr escaped from jail, prompting an area-wide search and school safety measures.

A partnership between retailers and prosecutors is fraying following a summer of tense negotiations and interventions by ...

While California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted a FBI-reported national decline in violent crime for 2023, the same report shows ...

Sen. Shannon Grove of Bakersfield is one of the Democratic-majority legislature's most conservative members, giving her ...

The penalty for soliciting and buying sex from minors under 16 will be raised to a felony under a new California law signed ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new laws that seek to offer repair for decades of policies that drove racial ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal apology for California’s role in slavery and legacy racism against Black people as part of ...

It has been ten years since Proposition 47 passed. At the time, Proposition 47 promised to improve public safety, make our ...

A new poll shows Californians overwhelmingly favor Prop. 36, the November ballot measure that would toughen criminal ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning ... Longer sentences: Prop 36 proposes that if a ...

Republican candidate for governor Kelly Ayotte is calling out her Democratic opponent Joyce Craig for heading to California ...