Lisa Fernandez

On the day before Thanksgiving, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned 19 people, including Walter Earlonne Woods, who was incarcerated in San Quentin when he started a podcast that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 

Nine-year-old football players from the Oakland Dynamites made it to the national championship games in Florida. But many cannot afford to go.

Even before Donald Trump was elected president, California's immigrant rights advocates were bracing for his return. They plan to ask Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers for $15 million during a special session to "protect California values."

Brentwood pays woman $1M after police K-9 rips off her scalp: attorney

Nine deputies and two medical staff charged with the Santa Rita Jail death of an Oakland man are expected to make their first court appearance on Monday following the revelation that KTVU exposed last year that no one had performed a meaningful check on him for several days, despite the fact that he refused any food and lay dying in his cell until his body was discovered. 

Two Bay Area lawyers have been trying to visit the 600 women who are now in federal prisons across the country after the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin shut down this spring. "And we were pretty horrified by what we heard and saw," said Susan Beaty.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is holding a news conference on Thursday, her first public appearance since being recalled last week.

The outgoing Alameda County District Attorney on Tuesday charged nine sheriff's deputies and two medical employees with the death of an Oakland man who had been languishing in his Santa Rita Jail cell for days before anyone noticed he was no longer alive. 

With counties turning red and liberal politicians getting ousted during the last election, the question on many people's minds is: Is progressive politics dead in California?

Criminal charges are pending against several deputies, and possibly medical staff, in the tragic death of an Oakland man who languished in his Santa Rita Jail cell for days before deputies discovered his body on a bunk, near a pool of his own urine and fluids, according to a memo from the sheriff and an interview with the man's sister.