Animal rescue volunteers are struggling to care for more than 50 sea lions stranded on Southern California beaches.

Authorities have identified three people killed Sunday in a pre-dawn helicopter crash while filming for a new reality TV show for the Discovery Channel.

The San Francisco Zoo is scheduled to make good on a Super Bowl wager with The Maryland Zoo.

A California central coast university sophomore has died outside a campus residence hall at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo.

Gov. Jerry Brown has begun aggressively challenging federal court oversight of California's prison system by highlighting what he claims is a costly conflict of interest: The private law firms representing inmates and the judges' own hand-picked authorities benefit financially by keeping the cases alive.

Authorities say a 12-year-old student at a San Diego County middle school has been arrested for allegedly threatening via email to shoot a teacher and 23 classmates.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is visiting California, and he hopes to return home with something more than a Disneyland souvenir.

Detectives are investigating a taunting phone call that may have been made by a fugitive ex-LAPD officer to the father of the woman they believe he killed in Southern California.

People flying in and out of San Francisco International Airport will be glad to hear that things are getting back to normal after a massive snowstorm on the East Coast disrupted air travel Friday and Saturday.

A funeral is scheduled this week for the Riverside Police Department officer who was allegedly shot and killed by fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 25 cents over the past two weeks.

Authorities say three people have died in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County.

"Identity Thief" has turned out to be the real thing at the box office.

Hunters are spending a portion of the weekend fanning out across a remote county in far Northern California as they compete in a controversial contest to see who can kill the most coyotes.

Authorities say a 24-year-old San Jose woman is dead after a fall from the 11th floor of condominium in downtown San Jose.

A state commission has decided to recommend that a stretch of the northern San Diego County coast known as Trestles be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

To scientists' excitement, the Curiosity rover has completed its first drilling on Mars and is preparing to analyze a pinch of powdery rock.

Dozens of flights out of Los Angeles International Airport have been canceled due to the blizzard on the east coast.

More than 100 officers fanned out again at daybreak in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains, resuming the search for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a deadly rampage.

A Southern California school board member has been convicted of pimping, pandering and insurance fraud.

A jury has been discharged in in the federal criminal trial of four Fresno police officers accused of using excessive force after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked on all charges.

California vintners have something to celebrate. Both the tonnage of grapes harvested and the prices recorded for them set records in 2012.

NASA is set to launch a new Earth-observing satellite designed to carry on the tradition of documenting changes to the planet's glaciers, forests and coastlines.

Southern California authorities hunting a triple-murder suspect plan to search through the weekend in snow-covered mountains where the former Los Angeles police officer torched and abandoned his pickup truck.

The mailbox was once the link to the outside world for older people.