Proposed California Prison Overhaul Would Save $1.5B Annually
California prison officials want to halt a $4 billion prison-construction program and bring back all inmates held out of state as part of a wide-ranging department restructuring.
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California prison officials want to halt a $4 billion prison-construction program and bring back all inmates held out of state as part of a wide-ranging department restructuring.
The Secretary of State's office announced Monday that a measure qualified for the ballot that would make life in prison without parole the harshest punishment in the state.
About 40 activists who are part of a group calling itself "Occupy the Farm" are planting 15,000 seedlings on a 10-acre plot of land in Albany that is owned by the University of California at Berkeley, a spokesman for the group said Monday.
San Francisco's ethics commission is scheduled to begin hearing testimony in the city's misconduct case against Ross Mirkarimi, the suspended sheriff removed from his job after being charged with domestic violence.
An interview with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon on a number of different high profile cases he and his office are currently working on.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was honored at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where for her work on the issue of HIV/AIDS.
Embattled Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer told her colleagues in a letter Friday that she is resigning from office effective immediately.
Officials said birds struck Vice President Joe Biden's plane as it was landing Thursday night at Santa Barbara Airport in California. Nobody was injured.
San Francisco Superior Judge Harold Kahn issued the tentative ruling Thursday and, after hearing from both Mirkarimi's counsel and the city attorney's office, said Friday that the matters raised by Mirkarimi's counsel "can and should be addressed by the administrative procedure."
Since 2007, the VA has experienced a 35 percent increase in the number of veterans receiving mental health services.
Speaking Thursday to the Associated Press Sports Editors, Selig provided no timetable for deciding the Bay Area dispute between the A's, who would like to build a ballpark in San Jose, and the Giants, who won't give up their territorial rights there.
The now-retired federal judge who struck down Proposition 8 said at a meeting in San Francisco Thursday he thinks same-sex marriage is "an idea whose time has come."
The city of Santa Clara and the San Francisco 49ers marked a major milestone Thursday by breaking ground on the team's new stadium.
A judge issued a tentative ruling Thursday denying a motion by suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi to overturn his suspension on official misconduct charges.
A bill to require that Bay Area Rapid Transit and other government agencies seek a court order before blocking cell phone access could reach the floor of the California Senate before the end of April.
