California

In communities across the country, people are deciding that water is just too precious to subject to the profit motive.

Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …

An environmental group plans to take legal action if federal agencies fail to halt offshore fracking in California's Santa Barbara Channel.

California has two bills that could lead to the one of the biggest expansions of access to abortion in the US since the FDA approved the abortion pill.

Freedom of the press may be one of the founding principles of the United States, but Senator Dianne Feinstein is on a mission to limit these powers.

u201cPension reformu201d has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste.

Pelican Bay Prison hunger striker Lorenzo Benton deconstructs and lambastes California Department of Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard's contentions that the hunger strike (which ended Thursday), is gang-instigated and enforced, …

In today's On the News segment: The Obama Administration is holding off on instituting out-of-pocket expense limits; North Carolina's Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed our nation's most restrictive voter …

At stake here is the very meaning of social life and social death, and the continued legacy of slavery, both in the U.S. prison system and in the structure …

Californians need to find the compassion in their hearts to recognize the heroism of incarcerated citizens.