“Counties can prioritize public information sessions, targeted workshops for first responders and health care providers, and ...

Statewide, most counties must launch CARE courts — conceived of by Gov. Gavin Newsom as part of a broader update to California ... Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa counties say their ...

A year after San Francisco and a few other counties launched a court process to nudge people with severe mental illness into treatment, the rest of California is following suit — and hoping for better ...

FairPark RV, the recreational vehicle park in the middle of the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, this week announced ...

It’s been like the wild-wild west. That’s the only way I can put it,” said Patricia Harris, whose 28-year-old son was shot in ...

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

It is clear they are closely watching now and aware of voter frustrations. Newsom and Democratic leaders in the Legislature ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this month announced his appointment of several new judges in the Bay Area, including two in Contra Costa County, plus the nomination of an Alameda ... Superior Court. Sanada served ...

Targeting crime was a central part of the Trump campaign’s message, but some left-leaning prosecutors and measures survived a ...