About $1 billion in federal funding distributed through the Interior Dept. will go toward rehabilitating canals, tunnels and ...

A California man has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for attempting to use a drone to deliver balloons stuffed with methamphetamine to people in a state penitentiary, of ...

A Placer County jury has found Eric Olsen guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his stepson, Jimmie Wiedeman, and a ...

A man who was accused of killing his stepson in 2023 was convicted and sentenced to 53 years to life in prison, according to ...

California transformed the way its prison population connects to the outside world by handing every incarcerated person an ...

Press Democrat readers comment on UFW’s Dolores Huerta, and more.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of a 72-year-old inmate as a homicide ...

Ignacio Guzman, a 28-year-old convict from Kings County, is being investigated for the murder of 72-year-old Earl D. Williams ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated person ...

The victim's nurse, Gregory Harms, is serving a sentence of 29 years to lifefor similar attacks on incapacitated women in ...