A California arsonist inspired by the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack against Israel has been given a 235-month prison ...

On Thursday, California lawmakers unanimously approved a plan to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage of $7 ...

Lawmakers introduced dozens of wildfire-related bills this year. We highlight some the legislature recently passed.

12:53 p.m. Sept. 17, 2025: An earlier version of this story said that Assembly Bill 218 would require prison officials to draft rules by 2027 to recommend incarcerated firefighters for resentencing.

A California tech executive was sentenced to jail time and ordered to pay over $156K after he crashed his drone into a ...

In howling winds and choking smoke during the January fires that devastated Altadena and Pacific Palisades, more than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters cleared brush and dug fire lines, some for wages ...

The prison in Tecumseh had long been a tinderbox when inmates started fires in their cells in 2023. This time, an inmate died ...

As part of his plea agreement, Peter Tripp Akemann agreed to pay full restitution to the government of Quebec, which supplied ...

Sedgwick County is set to lose $2 million in Department of Corrections funding changes, while Johnson County stands to gain ...

Maurice Hastings, who spent 38 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, has been awarded $25 million. His lawyers say it ...