Posted: 10:46 AM Cheering a California rebound, Gov. Jerry Brown says voter-approved tax increases have put the state on sound financial footing but warns lawmakers that they must be tight-fisted with the government purse strings.
Posted: 8:05 AM SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's sleek new jazz concert hall has opened with an inaugural celebration hosted by Bill Cosby.
Posted: 10:28 PM Officials say a 15-year-old student has been arrested at a high school east of Los Angeles for carrying ammunition on school grounds, and a handgun of the same caliber was later found at his home.
Updated: 8:34 PM A South Lake Tahoe police officer is charged with witness tampering after a three-year investigation.
Posted: 12:41 PM A Northern California man charged with hacking two men to death with an ax used to split logs has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Posted: 11:41 AM The ice on Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada may look sturdy, but authorities say it is unstable and are warning skaters of the dangers.
Posted: 11:39 AM A drunken driver who killed two pedestrians and blamed a swollen brain cyst for the accident has been convicted of murder and assault.
Updated: 3:14 PM A California researcher says a fireball seen streaking across Western skies last week was a flaming comet.
Posted: 11:26 AM The American Civil Liberties Union of California is demanding that state education officials order 251 school districts to provide English language instruction to more than 20,000 non-English speaking school children.
Posted: 11:24 AM A real estate research firm says California home foreclosure activity has fallen to a six-year low.
Updated: 12:24 PM A Southern California school police force has acquired semiautomatic rifles for officers to bring to campuses under a controversial safety program.
Posted: 2:56 PM A fire that roared through an old residential hotel in the Los Angeles harbor area has injured 14 people, three critically.
Posted: 2:53 PM A California family-owned turkey plant that recently filed for bankruptcy will remain in the hands of the Zacky family under the terms of a $31.6 million sale.
Posted: 2:50 PM Oakland police say five men are now in custody in connection with the shooting of an undercover police officer.
Posted: 2:48 PM Authorities say a fire at Beale Air Force Base in Northern California caused more than $10 million in damage.
Posted: 1:01 PM Police say a homeowner in Sacramento shot and killed a man in self-defense after the man refused to leave his yard and became increasingly violent.
Posted: 10:37 PM Police have responded to Chris Brown's home after they received a call about a domestic violence situation that turned out to be false.
Posted: 3:19 PM California Gov. Jerry Brown has joined hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the state in paying respect to a Sacramento-area police officer who was killed in the line of duty last week.
Posted: 9:59 AM Authorities say a Southern California man apparently has fallen to his death during a mountain hike.
Posted: 7:36 AM Officials say work will begin this week on repairing the fenders that were damaged when an empty tanker ship sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Updated: 7:46 AM HESPERIA, Calif. (AP) - Authorities have evacuated a Southern California motel after a meth lab was found in a room.
Posted: 2:08 PM More than two dozen of the world's top big wave surfers are in the waters off of Half Moon Bay as they compete in the Mavericks Invitational surf contest.
Posted: 11:12 AM Los Angeles County sheriff's officials are looking for the person who called 911 and falsely reported an emergency at the Malibu home of the Kardashians.
Posted: 11:09 AM Rescuers in Kauai say they have recovered the body of one of two San Francisco men who drowned, but rough seas kept them from searching for the other man.
