Encrypting scanners will align the Berkeley Police Department with all other law enforcement offices in the East Bay which began encrypting their feeds in October.

Opponents of full encryption shared concerns that the public will lose an important tool for monitoring police activity and ...

Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio communications.

In their work filming arrests, they take inspiration from the Black Panther Party, which organized “Copwatch” patrols during the 1960s civil-rights movement. (Their vigilance around who is allowed to ...

California voters have one big ballot measure to consider this year. Here's what you need to know about Proposition 50 and how it would impact the state. What is Proposition 50? If passed, it would ...

Julie Watts is a national-award-winning investigative correspondent for CBS News, covering California. Her investigations, Capitol accountability reports, and solutions-oriented journalism air weekly ...

Some 23 million voters have received mail ballots for the Nov. 4 election. The only statewide measure this fall is a redistricting plan spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom. By Soumya Karlamangla and ...

California's Proposition 50 would let the legislature redraw congressional districts to create five more Democratic-leaning seats. The measure is a response to Republican-led redistricting in states ...

On the Monday, October 20, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Proposition 50 voting is now underway in California. The decision on whether to allow redistricting will impact the entire nation. USA ...

Proposition 50, the only statewide measure on California's November ballot, is about the balance of power in Congress. It would redraw the lines of California's 52 Congressional districts, in an ...

California has slipped a notch in the bragging-rights totem pole to the world’s fifth-largest economy in the latest update on global business output. Using gross domestic product as the yardstick, my ...