Orange County sheriff's say thieves have ransacked a Mission Viejo home to steal more than $200,000 worth of jewelry, cash and more than a dozen guns, many of them gold-plated.

A handful of northern Nevada Walmart employees walked off the job today as part of a nation-wide protest.

Fire crews have begun mopping up and surveying the damage from a fire at a Northern California plant that supplies electricity to pump water as part of a major water delivery system in the state.

Authorities say a Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter crew rescued a 68-year-old hiker who suffered a head injury when he fell from a pinnacle overlooking the Sonoma Valley.

The California Highway Patrol says one person died and two others were critically injured when a vehicle overturned on Highway 101 in Palo Alto.

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to offer same-day package delivery for Internet shoppers.

Los Angeles has taken a potential step toward banning elephants in traveling circuses.

Calif.-Vegas party train could hit tracks in 2013. The long trip from Southern California to Las Vegas is about to get bigger, better and boozier.

Authorities have arrested nine people and seized about 2,500 pounds of marijuana after chasing a panga boat up and down the coast off of northern San Diego County.

The fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man in Oakland has bought this year's homicide tally to 110, tying the city's mark last year.

The sale of California's first pollution permits will generate less money than expected for the state budget.

Authorities are searching for suspects following a wild shootout that shut down traffic on a freeway in Oakland.

Some turkeys in Marin County don't have to be worried about their fate on Thanksgiving Day, but area residents would be thankful if the turkeys weren't causing so much trouble.

A 68-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife after police found her severed head and her body parts cooking at their home in Southern California.

Town leaders in the Northern California commercial fishing village of Crescent City hope last year's tsunami is among the last of many that forced major repairs.

California officials plan to quarantine an area in the state's citrus belt where a pest capable of killing citrus trees was found.

Authorities say a third person has died from consuming toxic mushrooms at a California senior care facility.

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.