Posted: 1:12 PM Investigators say Chevron firefighters responding to a small California refinery leak last summer may have accidentally punctured a main pipeline before a massive blaze.

Posted: 1:06 PM 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.

Updated: 11:36 PM Police confirm 19-year-old Alyssa Byrnes was found dead near South Lake Tahoe Friday morning.

Posted: 6:25 PM 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.

Posted: 2:44 PM A Stockton man prosecutors say lived with his girlfriend's rotting corpse for several months has been convicted of murder.

Updated: 2:49 PM 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.

Posted: 1:51 PM 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.

Updated: 1:49 PM 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.

Posted: 11:32 AM Rapper Frank Ocean is facing marijuana charges in California after a traffic stop on New Year's Eve.

Updated: 9:00 AM A skier injured in the backcountry by Echo Peak is safe and warm after a daring rescue.

Posted: 2:05 PM A man has been swept to sea and drowned while trying to save his dog hit by a rogue wave on a Northern California beach.

Posted: 2:01 PM Citrus growers in California's Central Valley appear to have escaped with little or no crop damage after a series of unusually cold nights.

Updated: 1:52 PM 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.

Updated: 11:43 AM Sheriff's officials have located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing in Central California, and they say the female pilot is dead.

Posted: 2:03 PM State officials are set to conduct this winter's first survey of the Sierra snowpack, which provides about a third of the state's water supply.

Updated: 10:25 PM 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.

Posted: 10:01 AM Police have a suspect in custody for a New Year's Eve shooting at a bar in the Old Sacramento area that killed two people.

Posted: 9:18 AM major Southern California newspaper is defying conventional wisdom by spending heavily to expand in print.

Posted: 7:05 AM Thousands of people in Southern California are lining the route of the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena.

Updated: 7:47 AM Police say two people died and three others were injured in a New Year's Eve shooting after a fight in a restaurant in the Old Sacramento area.

Posted: 2:27 PM Police have arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with a body that was discovered encased in newly poured concrete inside a Southern California heating and air conditioning business.

Posted: 12:46 PM California's alcohol sales enforcers have gotten $70,000 worth of bullet-resistant vests, helmets and gas masks to protect them during undercover stings at bars, restaurants and retail establishments.

Posted: 12:43 PM Oakland police are looking for a gunman who shot to death a 15-year-old girl and wounded a 14-year-old boy at a housing complex.

Posted: 12:41 PM The California Supreme Court has ruled that amusement parks are not financially responsible for injuries suffered on bumper cars or other thrill rides.

Posted: 12:39 PM Three people were hurt when a stagecoach carrying 14 visitors lost a wheel and flipped at Southern California's Knott's Berry Farm.