Prop. 209: California Voters To Decide Fate Of Affirmative Action Ban
California voters will decide in November whether governments and public colleges and universities can consider race in their hiring, contracting and admissions decisions.
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California voters will decide in November whether governments and public colleges and universities can consider race in their hiring, contracting and admissions decisions.
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond outlined Wednesday the state's plans to analyze data on policing in schools.
As coronavirus cases spike to record levels in California and other states, Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday implored Californians to redouble their efforts to keep themselves and others safe by strictly following the current state guidelines on sheltering, social distancing, wearing face masks and washing their hands.
Former San Francisco supervisor and LGBTQ activist Harry Britt has passed away, a former state assemblyman confirmed Wednesday.
The superintendent of the Dublin Unified School District shocked the community when he resigned abruptly Tuesday.
California's attorney general declined Wednesday to independently investigate the fatal shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
A pair of San Jose police officers were praised for their service Wednesday when the department shared how the policemen saved an 11-month-old baby boy who had stopped breathing on Father's Day.
A Freeway Service Patrol driver who died in a crash Tuesday afternoon on Interstate Highway 280 in Woodside has been identified by the San Mateo County coroner's office as 61-year-old Dublin resident Mark Alarcon.
A school in San Jose has become one of the first in the Bay Area to have students on campus for classes since the COVID-19 shelter-in-place began in March.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in coronavirus relief payments have been sent to people behind bars in California and across the United States, and now the IRS is asking state officials to help claw back the cash that the federal tax agency says was mistakenly sent.
With new COVID-19 cases on the rise again, Santa Clara County court officials announced Wednesday they were extending the zero bail requirements for residents accused of lower level crimes to at least until Sept. 1.
Authorities in Union City have launched a hate crime investigation after a vehicle was vandalized with racist graffiti over the weekend.
A 55-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with making criminal threats with a hate crime enhancement for allegedly threatening to shoot a family including small children wearing Black Lives Matter shirts at a restaurant in Burlingame earlier this month, prosecutors said Wednesday.
California's Yosemite National Park is reversing course two weeks after reopening and now says it will hold off on reopening some campgrounds through July.
Richmond and Oakland police have released dramatic body-cam videos showing the violent and deadly end of the pursuit of a Vallejo kidnapping suspect that left the suspect fatally shot and two officers injured.
