California's jobless rate dipped to 9.6 percent last month, the lowest in more than four years.

We now know details of what lead to the arrest of former Nevada assemblyman Steven Brooks, including an alleged attempt to choke and beat a K-9.

Authorities are investigating how two people died after their bodies were found at Northern California beaches Thursday.

Search warrants unsealed Thursday also say authorities found what is described as a homemade destructive device at the Santa Clara home of Everett Basham.

California, which is ahead of most states in planning an insurance exchange, is expected to be a trendsetter on rates.

Two staffers claimed over 260 hours of overtime and extra testing they didn't perform, collecting nearly $14,000 to which they were not entitled.

The plane is expected to be ready to leave from the San Francisco Bay area on May 1, although organizers said the actual departure will depend on weather.

The moratorium was passed unanimously Wednesday night.

The crash occurred Thursday morning and shut down westbound lanes of the highway. Officer Chris Parker says two of the four eastbound lanes were also closed.

The city of Santa Clara is flipping on a big Internet switch this week, becoming what it says is the first in the country to use wireless, digital "smart meters" on homes as channels for free citywide outdoor Wi-Fi.

The California Highway Patrol says all southbound lanes of Interstate 5 north of Sacramento are closed after two big rigs collided, spilling 40 gallons of diesel fuel and causing minor injuries.

Los Angeles police say they are seeking two people believed to be involved in the abduction of a 10-year-old girl who was missing for nearly 12 hours before she was dropped off at a hospital.

The Alameda County Coroner's Office on Tuesday identified the victim as 32-year-old Delun Pan of Alameda.

Lawyers for the city have said Stockton has cuts its budget and services to the bone and has no choice but to enter bankruptcy.

Police spokesman Richard French says Nicole Ryan was last seen in her bedroom early Wednesday, just after midnight. When her parents checked on her a few hours later, the girl was gone.

Paramedics treated the man at the scene and he was taken to a hospital, where he was in critical condition.

City News Service says the man had a leaf blower strapped to his back when he was pulled from the water Tuesday night in the Shadow Hills neighborhood.

Transportation officials are investigating why nearly three dozen threaded steel rods on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge snapped when workers tightened the fittings.

A San Diego County couple awaiting trial on charges they enslaved their 12-year-old niece and forced her to have sex with her uncle and other men have pleaded guilty to several counts.

An attorney says a disabled man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the "It's A Small World" ride broke, stranding him for three hours while the theme song played continuously.

A study by the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts says costs for medical claims filed by individual policy holders could rise as much as 62 percent in California under the Affordable Care Act.

It will be the first time since the bridge opened in 1937 that workers won't be there to collect tolls.

Enrollment in the 112-campus system dropped from 2.9 million to 2.4 million students, even though the number of high school graduates increased.

Twenty-eight-year-old Melody Carter-McCabe was sentenced on Monday in Merced County Superior Court after pleading no contest to nine felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor.

Court documents state that David Garcia and co-defendant Michael Ottinger Jr., the sergeant-at-arms for the San Diego chapter of Hells Angels, used violent force and intimidation to control the meth trade in San Diego.