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

Letters include highlighting one person's courage during the Mountain Fire; and that Californians voted for our values by ...

Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

Tough-on-crime proposals and politicians won in California, Arizona, Georgia, and elsewhere across the country.

On Sept. 27, 1961, former Vice President Richard Nixon announced his candidacy for the 1962 California gubernatorial election ...

Democrat voters grew tired of spikes in crime and homelessness. They used the election to make a change in some of the most ...

Josh Shapiro on the Harris ticket could have made the difference in Pennsylvania … but likely nowhere else. The ...

California voters have overwhelmingly approved strengthening penalties for certain theft and drug crimes. They also ousted Los Angeles County's progressive district attorney.

I was recently forced to move from my home due to rent control. Voters in California, Oregon and elsewhere used direct democracy to reject several bad ideas while adopting sensible reforms. Miracle of ...

Once again, California voters demonstrated in this fall's month-long voting season that they are liberal – but not so far left as many of the politicians they usually elect.

Witnesses said they saw Gonzalez, on foot, screaming. Olvera then struck her with his car, killing her. He fled the scene, ...

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