California voters are deciding on 10 statewide propositions on the ballot. The one likely to get the most attention is a ...

In reality, it’s just the latest example of California voters showing their complicated feelings about crime and punishment.

The Government has been told to stop using the term “shoplifting” to describe theft from the high street, as peers warn it ...

Supporters of Prop. 36 say it would help the state address homelessness, drug addiction and retail theft. Its critics call it ...

California voters approved a ballot measure that would reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, ...

Police say on Monday the man got out of a white Alfa Romero near Kingston Avenue and Carroll Street and was able to get into ...

The initiative requires an amendment to the state penal code to remove the $950 threshold that separates petty theft, a ...

Live election results for California's Prop 36, which would increase penalties for theft and drug trafficking.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed the measure, saying that “Prop 36 takes us back to the 1980s, mass ...

The decision to downgrade theft of property valued below the arbitrary figure from felony to misdemeanor, together with ...

In the nation’s biggest cities, meanwhile, voters will determine the fate of mayors, sheriffs, criminal justice reform, ...

with polling showing overwhelming support for a statewide ballot measure to crackdown on retail theft and the deadly drug ...