Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

A YES vote was there to punish the AIDS health and housing people who promote rent control. Another big YES vote was there to punish criminals more than we already do. We saw bucketloads of the same ...

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appears to be headed for a recall, with 64% of the votes favoring recalling her ...

The Board of Supervisors plans to discuss next steps for appointing a replacement district attorney at its Dec. 10 meeting.

Voters in Oakland, California, have ousted Mayor Sheng Thao just two years after she narrowly won office to lead the liberal ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

The recall last week of two Bay Area officials who both championed progressive crime policies reflects long-held frustrations ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

On Monday, Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez criticized Price, who filed the charges just days after facing a recall election that she was losing by a wide margin based on the latest unofficial ...

Maurice Monk died in the Santa Rita Jail after languishing for days without care or direly needed medication, and officials ...

Bay Area voters sent a clear message in last week's election, ousting the mayors of San Francisco and Oakland and rejecting a ...

Oakland's mayor, Sheng Tao, and its district attorney, Pamela Price were both recalled in an overwhelming vote of no ...