Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

California voters have passed Proposition 36, the Associated Press projects, approving changes that will roll back criminal ...

County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity.

California voters approved a ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeat theft and crimes involving ...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed the measure, saying that “Prop 36 takes us back to the 1980s, mass ...

Here's how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl ...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday declined to say how she voted on Proposition 36, a California ballot initiative that ...

This proposition would allow for felony charges for certain drug and theft crimes if the defendant has two prior convictions ...

Frustrated with what they see as rampant retail crimes, voters approved an initiative making shoplifting a felony for repeat ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed Proposition 36. He claims it will bring California back to the 1980s when mass ...

A new crime-fighting ballot measure offers tools to get help for people with addiction, District Attorney Summer Stephan says ...

California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug ...