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.

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.