An Amtrak train has hit and killed a pedestrian in Oakland.

A San Francisco deputy sheriff is facing charges over an off-duty incident where investigators say she forced her way into a man's home, brandished a pistol and threatened him.

Oakland Port officials say operations are back to normal after a one-day strike blocked trucks from entering the facility.

California's commercial squid fishery has reached its 118,000 short ton limit and is closing until March.

Itsy-bitsy apartments are coming to San Francisco.

Union officials say hundreds of nurses in the San Francisco Bay area are braving rain showers to walk picket lines after going on strike Tuesday.

Authorities in San Diego County say a 14-year-old girl fought off a would-be kidnapper who was then run over by a car.

A California pastor has resigned in wake of a scandal involving a registered sex offender who was allowed to work as a Catholic school festival volunteer.

A California university medical school dean is resigning amid controversy over doctor experiments on dying cancer patients.

A 50-acre solar array proposed on vacant California airport land would provide enough electricity for 10,000 homes.

A statewide survey shows there are more drugged drivers than drunken drivers on California roads during the weekend.

Fire investigators say an abandoned campfire led to a brush fire that burned about two acres early Tuesday morning.

Federal authorities say four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas and in the United States by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Union workers have begun the first part of a 24-hour strike at Oakland International Airport and at the Port of Oakland.

Officials say thousands of people showed up and waited in lines stretching for ten blocks to get a free Thanksgiving turkey and canned food in Sacramento on Monday.

Carvings that graced the Sierra Nevada in California for thousands of years have fallen prey to modern thieves armed with power saws.

Southwest Airlines has announced it will stop service between Reno and Oakland beginning June 2, 2013.

A Los Angeles federal judge has denied a Christian group's bid for an injunction to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to private displays, including Christmas Nativity scenes.

A 24-year-old California man has been charged with murder for the stabbing death of a former girlfriend in an alley.

California Highway Patrol officers wrapping up a deadly Los Angeles freeway crash ran to the scene of a second nearby crash and pulled a man from a burning car.

San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing.

A newspaper is reporting that state and federal officials are conducting parallel investigations into allegations of wrongdoing by some nurses at a Soledad prison.

U.S. Coast Guard crews have recovered a body floating found in the waters of San Francisco Bay.

The city of Santa Monica has allowed an elaborate nativity scene in its Palisades Park each Christmas for nearly 60 years, but officials are ending the tradition this year after an atheist set up his own non-religious display and caused an uproar.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped seven cents over the past two weeks.