• The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents its “Tides of Time” gala at 6 p.m. Friday, May 16, at Birch Aquarium, 2300 ...

California is reenvisioning prison life, starting with San Quentin, the state’s oldest and most notorious prison. Step one is changing the relationship between incarcerated people and their guards.

Randy Kraft, who has been dubbed the "Scorecard Killer," is the only person under investigation for the 1980 killing, Oregon ...

Kraft, now 80, was convicted in 1989 of brutalizing and killing 16 men over a decade in California and sentenced to death. He remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison and has denied ...

The project is part of a four-phase plan to replace 555 aging apartments, originally built in the 1970s, with modern units.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo said on Monday it received approval from California to expand its robotaxi operations in more areas of the San Francisco Peninsula and ...

California is set to transform San Quentin State Prison into a Scandinavian-style rehabilitation center, a project estimated to cost $239 million. The overhaul will introduce features like a ...

A sweeping transformation is taking place at California's oldest prison as state ... State of play: San Quentin State Prison — the state's most notorious correctional facility that has been ...

They would join Northern California’s Marin, San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, which all crossed the six-figure threshold in 2025, as first reported by SFGate. In 2000 ...

two later died in the gas chamber of the California State Prison at San Quentin. They were executed for their role in the death of a correctional officer during the "Battle of Alcatraz" escape ...