A look at top contenders to be California's top cop—and chief enforcer of consumer protection, internet privacy and criminal investigations.

About a dozen people are jockeying for the role, including two local leaders with differing views about how to tackle criminal justice reform.

In Padilla and Weber, Californians get their first Latino U.S. Senator and first Black female secretary of state.

There’s a frankness that was fairly unusual even at in-person trade shows that are now canceled or delayed as we all shelter in place.

Anthony Rendon declined to comment on the investigation launched into Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low of Campbell.

It's legal for Assemblyman Rob Bonta's nonprofit to give to his wife's employer. But an author of state political ethics law says it shouldn't be.

Nonprofits set up by legislators test campaign finance laws even as they underwrite good works by elected officials.

The votes were the first in what figures to be a lengthy battle between two of the state’s most powerful education interests.

SJSU will host an educational forum on cannabis record clearance on Nov. 28 in the Student Union Theater.

What would have been a milestone for social justice advocates instead exposed deep divisions in the criminal justice movement.

Thousands of weed-related convictions may be automatically overturned throughout California next year thanks to AB 1793.

Some hoped Santa Clara County would take a cue from San Francisco and other cities that erased pot convictions in the wake of Prop. 64.

A Bay Area lawmaker has introduced a bill that would waive a 10 percent penalty on cash payments for recreational pot sales.

A South Bay activist appeared on MSNBC this week to talk about the importance of overhauling the money bail system.

California lawmakers unveiled a bill to reform the state’s money bail system, calling the profit-based status quo an injustice to the poor.

The owner of a local collective claims California's new marijuana regulations violate the state's constitution.