The measure makes shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increases penalties for some drug charges, including those involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It also would give judges the ...

The measure partly rolls back a progressive law passed by voters in 2014 that downgraded several nonviolent crimes to misdemeanors, including theft under $950 in value and some drug offenses.

Braian Paiz, the alleged drug dealer of former One Direction member Liam Payne, has spoken up about their encounters. In an ...

The "treatment-mandated felony" would apply to a person who possesses certain drugs – such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine – and has two or more previous convictions for some ...

A ballot measure that will roll back some of California's most controversial soft-on-crime policies has overwhelmingly passed in the deep blue state. Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug ...

Alec Regimbal is a politics reporter at SFGATE. He graduated from Western Washington University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. A Washington State native, Alec previously wrote for the ...

The measure also gives judges the authority to order people with multiple drug charges into rehab and undoes some of the changes the state made 10 years ago through Proposition 47. Jawad Ursani ...

College students have opportunities to bend or break the rules after leaving home. It can be dangerous for those who take ...

And California voters overwhelmingly approved an initiative, Proposition 36, that restores felony penalties for some drug possession offenses, reinforcing the message that Oregon legislators sent ...

Anne-Marie Penny has been a road safety professional since 2003. She was involved in a life-threatening motorbike crash in 1995 and her passion to reduce road crash casualties and the physical and ...

Since we fundamentally do not understand how these drugs work, it is difficult for us to understand in any comprehensive way why they do not work. We do have some sense that whatever it is that ...