Posted: 12:01 PM Police at California State University, Northridge, have held a training exercise involving a simulated shooting spree - a scenario made more poignant and timely by last week's deadly attack at a Connecticut elementary school.
Posted: 6:39 AM An audit shows Oakland is keeping cash from overpaid parking tickets despite a state law requiring refunds.
Updated: 4:43 PM Authorities say traffic on a San Francisco Bay area highway is open again after a vehicle driven by a U.S. Marine was apparently struck by gunfire.
Posted: 12:40 PM A magnitude-3.8 earthquake has struck in Humboldt County.
Posted: 12:39 PM A former aide to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is facing charges that she billed trips to Disneyland and thousands of dollars in personal expenses to her city-issued credit card.
Posted: 12:37 PM Clear skies are helping authorities search for a small plane that disappeared from radar over the backcountry of Yosemite National Park.
Posted: 12:34 PM A man arrested along with his father in the 1997 disappearance of a 15-year-old Northern California girl has been released from jail.
Updated: 8:20 AM Northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in far Northern California have reopened after a series of traffic collisions involving about 60 vehicles shut down the roadway.
Posted: 9:47 PM Authorities say San Jose City College is on lockdown and police are conducting room to room searches after a report this afternoon of a gunman on campus.
Posted: 1:59 PM A state review finds that more than 200 state employees were overpaid more than $500,000 by managers who deliberately broke state rules at the troubled California Department of Parks and Recreation.
Posted: 1:53 PM Two California casino-owning tribes have filed lawsuits to block a third tribe in the state from building its own casino.
Updated: 1:50 PM A Riverside County high school student has been arrested on suspicion of threatening his teacher.
Updated: 12:19 PM A Northern California man has been arrested on suspicion of making threatening comments on the Internet in connection with the Connecticut school shootings.
Updated: 3:30 AM A federal judge late Monday rejected Apple Inc.'s demands that its chief rival in the more than $100 billion global smartphone market cease selling models a jury recently found illegally used Apple technology.
Posted: 4:16 PM Thousands of people in a handful of small communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills southeast of Sacramento are without electricity after a power outage hit the area.
Updated: 5:00 PM A federal judge is considering whether sex offenders' use of social media constitutes free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Posted: 2:07 PM The last of California's great gold mines closed a generation ago.
Posted: 2:04 PM The body of a missing 77-year-old man believed to have fallen into the waters off Mare Island has washed ashore.
Posted: 2:02 PM Southbound Interstate 5 truck lanes in northern Los Angeles have been blocked for hours by a jackknifed big-rig.
Updated: 2:00 PM A California lawmaker says he will introduce legislation aimed at strengthening the state's restrictions on gun ownership in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Updated: 2:00 PM Three members of a holiday-bound family stranded with a flat tire on a Northern California freeway have been struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle.
Updated: 11:24 AM A Southern California man was arrested and nine guns, including rifles and a shotgun, were seized after threats were posted on Facebook against Los Angeles elementary schools.
Posted: 4:45 PM Administrators of a California school district say they are being cautious as they launch what is believed to be the country's most comprehensive yoga program for a public school system.
Posted: 4:38 PM A massive replanting in Napa Valley of some of the world's priciest vineyards is so widespread a critical shortage of grapevine root stock has developed.
Posted: 2:53 PM Police say hundreds of guns have been taken off the streets of Oakland and San Francisco in a gun buyback program that Oakland police Officer Johnna Watson is describing as a "huge success."
