A research firm says the San Francisco Bay area's median home price surged 17 percent in just one month, to pass the half-million dollar mark for the first time in five years.
The San Francisco Fire Department has lost a $7.8 million federal grant for the first new fireboat in 50 years because it didn't spend the money in time.
An attorney for a 12-year-old California boy arrested in the stabbing death of his sister says the youngster might have lied about seeing a long-haired intruder fleeing the scene but that doesn't make the boy the killer.
A federal judge in California has ruled that the U.S. government was negligent in the death of a boy killed when a retaining wall crushed him at Lassen Volcanic National Park
Officials overseeing construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge say the $6.3 billion span still "has a fighting chance" to open this year, despite concerns over structural issues.
The father of a 12-year-old boy arrested in the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister says he believes his son is innocent until he is shown evidence that proves otherwise.
Authorities hunting for a Northern California man wanted in the killing of his wife and two young daughters have brought in dogs trained to search for cadavers.
Sacramento County authorities are praising the quick-thinking of a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped off the street and thrown into her abductor's car trunk, but managed to escape.
More than 400 seismic safety rods that may be vulnerable to cracking or breaking are embedded in the base of the new Bay Bridge and may be difficult to inspect, remove or replace.
Authorities say they have arrested the brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month.
Police say a human head found in a load of recycling debris at a facility in Oakland probably came from outside the city and may have been that of a homicide victim.
An attorney for the family of a man who died while being arrested by Kern County Sheriff's deputies Wednesday says he plans on filing a civil rights lawsuit in federal District Court in Fresno next week.