Coalition Pushes California To Provide Funding For Crime Prevention, Prisoner Re-Entry Programs
Preventing criminals from returning to the streets -- that's the goal of a dozen agencies, victims' rights advocates and lawmakers in California.
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Preventing criminals from returning to the streets -- that's the goal of a dozen agencies, victims' rights advocates and lawmakers in California.
The deadly mass shooting in downtown Sacramento is reigniting calls for more gun control in California. The state already has some of the strictest restrictions, but gun rights advocates are blaming elected officials for not being tough on crime
California's troubled COVID testing lab will soon be shutting down. CBS13 has learned the state is terminating its $1.7 billion-dollar no-bid contract with PerkinElmer, the private company running California's taxpayer-funded COVID lab.
For all of California's nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent "ghost" guns.
An $8.1 million plan includes physical infrastructure such as adding more lighting and cameras, but it also targets the root of gun violence. The mayor recently said the city council approved an additional $5.1 million to help youth programs.
Police canvassed a multi-block crime scene for hours following a deadly mass shooting. The scene visible near Golden 1 Center and nearby restaurants.
President Biden announced Thursday he wants to release a million barrels of oil per day from the nation's reserve for six months. But will this bring relief at the pump to California drivers?
For the first time in California's 171-year history, a woman has signed a bill into state law.
For the first time in California's 171-year history, a woman has signed a bill into state law.
In the city of Stockton, on any given night, an estimated 140 veterans are forced to sleep on the streets. On Thursday, the city celebrated a new housing community dedicated to cutting that number down.
The clock is ticking for state lawmakers considering whether to extend eviction protections for renters who apply for a COVID-19 rent relief program.
Even in California, home to some of the nation's strictest firearms laws, a bill requiring parents to tell school officials if they keep guns in the house went too far to move ahead in the Legislature.
Enlisted members of the military would get an automatic 30-day cooling-off period in California when they buy or lease vehicles, under a proposal backed Tuesday by the state's attorney general and leader of the state Senate.
The first-in-the-nation panel has decided that eligibility for reparations will be based on lineage and not race. The panel voted compensation is to be limited to Black people who had descendants in the U.S. during the 19th century.
The California Assembly has approved a measure extending the pandemic eviction moratorium -- just days before it's set to expire.
