WASHINGTON — Immigration arrests fell in Northern California in the past year even as arrests nationally rose 11 percent, a trend that...

Blacks and Latinos were injured or killed by police officers in California in greater percentages than their share of the population,...

A federal magistrate ordered Rohnert Park to train its police in conducting legal home searches Wednesday after an officer, following his...

Relying on a new state law that allows the public to obtain some previously secret police records, the American Civil Liberties Union is...

As a soft rain fell in the Mission District on a recent morning, marking the start of another workday, dozens of the district’s Latino...

Vallejo police said Thursday that they are investigating the complaints of a Marine veteran who said he was assaulted by an officer for...

In an effort to stem a $30 million budget deficit, Oakland Unified School District officials are considering closing or consolidating a...

The controversial police shooting of an unarmed black man nearly a year ago in Sacramento led the California Department of Justice on...

California prison officials have systematically violated the rights of inmates spelled out in an agreement more than three years ago to...

A Honduran mother in San Francisco was reunited with her 17-month-old daughter on Tuesday night after spending a month desperately...

The rising cost of housing in the Bay Area has dramatically resegregated neighborhoods by race and pushed minority families to the outer...

The San Francisco Police Department is infected with a culture of racism, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit over...

BALTIMORE — A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. But new research suggests that poor Americans...

The mother of a man shot to death behind the wheel of his car by Danville police has filed a claim against the city that alleges “his...

Stickers and flyers bearing the logo of a white nationalist group were found on several Windsor light poles this week, prompting local...

On Sunday mornings, Najari Smith leads cyclists through the neighborhoods of Richmond for a weekly bike ride. A trailer attached to his...

When Robert Waggener checked the voice mail at his family-run electrical contracting company in East Oakland on a recent weekend, what he...