SANTA MONICA - The city is moving to formalize how it addresses historically rooted harm tied to past city actions - and it's putting $3.5 million behind that effort, money the City of Santa Monica ...

As the Ottawa Police Service continues to crack down on retail and grocery theft, one criminologist is calling for ...

The two teens — both 13-years-old at the time — bring new details about the convicted sexual predator and former Jeopardy star, Winston Nguyen, who was sentenced to seven years in prison last ...

A House committee approved two bills Wednesday creating new ways to deal with criminal offenders. The Judiciary Committee voted 14-12 on a party-line vote for an amended House Bill 1671 giving judges ...

January 28, 2026 -- The City Council unanimously approved a $3.5 million Restorative Justice Program Tuesday that is one of the largest locally funded initiatives of its kind in the nation.

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

Santa Monica City Council will vote on a new parks vision plan targeting 5 acres per 1,000 residents and a $3.5 million ...

Buffey Wright Bourassa, a Willits resident and member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, is planning to run for the ...

In the face of conflict and harm, schools have traditionally punished students. But there might be a better way.

South Hadley Budget Task Force to hold listening session SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s Budget Task Force will hold the third and final listening session on Thursday before the committee sends its ...

Two men plead guilty in the 2012 death of Corey Stingley, entering a restorative justice-led deferred prosecution agreement.

Restrained by three white men for attempted shoplifting, a Black teen died from asphyxiation. His father refused to accept that no one would be held responsible. More than a decade later, his idea of ...