Scientists are on a mission to track the carbon footprints of large cities that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming.

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.

Sheriff's authorities say they've identified a "person of interest" in the death of a 63-year-old jogger who was mauled to death by a pack of pit bulls in the Mojave Desert.

Concerns of a potential farm labor shortage are prompting San Joaquin Valley growers to boost the wages they pay to farmworkers.

Nipomo community leaders plan to borrow $4 million more dollars to move forward with the construction of a water pipeline for area residents, after a lawsuit was filed contesting drawing the money from a reserve fund.

SWAT teams from three counties, federal law enforcement officials and local police - on the ground and in the air - are joining the hunt for a Northern California man wanted in the killing of his wife and two young daughters.

Sheriff's deputies in California have discovered a body southwest of Lake Tahoe that could be that of a missing Reno woman.

The head of the America's Cup planning effort says he expects sailing's most prestigious event to go forward after the death of a sailor on a training run in the San Francisco Bay.

Since late March, eight homes have cracked apart and been abandoned, and owners of another 10 are under threat of imminent evacuation.

San Diego County prosecutors have filed new allegations against three members of a sex bondage ring facing trial in the violent death of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife.

Authorities have identified a Texas man who died after he was struck by the propeller of a crop duster plane in Northern California.

A brother and sister are jailed on suspicion of trying to arrange a murder-for-hire in a failed attempt to kill a victim in an ongoing criminal case.

Los Angeles prosecutors say a 16-year-old from Compton has been convicted of killing her mother and stepfather while she and her boyfriend were planning to hold a Halloween party in the family's mobile home in 2011.

California education officials have taken the first step toward complying with a law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights' milestones in the curriculum.

America's Cup officials say a catamaran that capsized in San Francisco Bay, killing a sailor, nosedived during a difficult maneuver and broke into many pieces.

Chris Hansen has increased his total valuation of the Sacramento Kings from $550 million to $625 million in another attempt to sway NBA owners to allow him to buy the franchise and move it to Seattle.

A Northern California high school baseball team saved a 16-year-old girl who was pinned under a car when they worked together to lift it off her.

A sailor has died after a boat practicing for the upcoming America's Cup races capsized in San Francisco Bay.

Sheriff's deputies have found the truck of a man suspected of fatally shooting his wife and two young daughters at their rural Northern California home.

A human head has been found in a load of recycling debris at a facility in Oakland.

Southern California firefighters remain on the lookout for hot spots a week after a wildfire erupted near Camarillo and Thousand Oaks.

A Riverside County school district has rejected a claim that an autistic boy arrested for selling marijuana at school was a victim of discrimination.

Authorities say three people have been arrested for operating a sophisticated identity theft ring in San Jose.