The Board’s proclamation is aimed at recognizing the 215 employees at the San Mateo County Probation Department for their ...

An open government advocacy group is threatening to sue a California county that is preparing to discuss firing its elected sheriff behind closed doors.

The First Amendment Coalition’s push for the county to ensure hearings to fire its top law enforcement officer be open to the ...

Measure A, passed by county voters in March, allows for the removal of the sheriff for cause. While the specifics of the current proceedings have not been publicly disclosed, the sheriff has faced ...

The Knox County Commission on June 23 overhauled decades of leadership at the troubled juvenile detention center.

The Knox County Sheriff's Office will take over operations at the facility Jan. 1. Richard Bean, for whom the facility is named, is resigning under pressure after scrutiny on how he managed the ...

A 25-year-old Hemet man has been arrested in connection with a January homicide that left one man dead and another injured, following what Riverside County authorities described as a “lengthy ...

Officials: Flood victims search may last 6 months; rebuild will take years It could take years for Kerr County to fully bounce back from the effects of the July 4 Guadalupe River flooding, county ...

At 3 a.m. Sunday, deputies found the 43-year-old man to be unresponsive in his cell during a routine safety check, the sheriff’s office stated in a news release.

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO — A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility died Saturday of his injuries.