Forecasters say the latest winter storm to move into California brought some odd weather to the region, including thunderstorms in Northern California and snow in Southern California.
Hundreds of people turned out for a candlelight vigil in memory of a 19-year-old Northern California woman who was found dead after disappearing on New Year's Eve at Lake Tahoe.
An 18-year-old Ventura County man accused of dousing his family's dog with lighter fluid and setting it on fire in a ravine near their home has pleaded no contest to animal cruelty and arson charges.
Marin County officials say two elderly residents have died following an outbreak of a gastrointestinal virus that sickened nearly 60 people at a senior care center.
Southern California air quality officials say they may approve a $200,000 system to track the stink of rotting fish and eggs emanating from the sulfurous waters of the Salton Sea.
Police say home invasion robbers have stormed a San Francisco area home and dragged the residents from their beds at gunpoint before fleeing with valuables.
The state attorney general's office says officials at the highest level of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars secret for more than a decade.
Investigators say Chevron firefighters responding to a small California refinery leak last summer may have accidentally punctured a main pipeline before a massive blaze.
Climbing Yosemite's Half Dome is one of the national park system's most iconic hikes in the nationwide system, but fewer people are going to be able to scale the granite monolith.
A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man who pretended to be a sleeping woman's boyfriend, saying in part that an arcane law from 1872 doesn't protect unmarried women in such cases.
The federal government has approved California's plan to run its own health insurance market, a milestone in the state's effort to meet the national health care reform law.
For the first time in decades, a river otter has made San Francisco its home, taking up residence in the ruins of a 19th Century seaside bath near the Golden Gate Bridge.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is suing ConocoPhillips and its spinoff, Phillips 66, over underground tanks used to store gasoline at more than 500 gas stations in the state.
Police in San Francisco say two people were killed and a third critically injured when a shooting suspect fleeing police slammed into another vehicle that then hit a pedestrian.
A new elementary school being built in California is embroiled in controversy after the school board decided to name it after one of the state's most notorious Old West bandidos.
