Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the University of California to contain costs and rethink how it does business even though voters approved new taxes to fund schools and colleges.

The board overseeing California's efforts to establish an insurance marketplace to provide affordable health care is considering adopting its formal operational blueprint.

Parts of San Francisco City Hall remained without power on Wednesday morning after a small electrical fire the previous night.

State fire officials say a prescribed burn that jumped firelines in San Luis Obispo County is now 60 percent contained.

Authorities say the toxic mushrooms that killed two residents of a California senior care facility and sickened four others came from the home's backyard.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is trying a humorous approach to answer common questions online.

Experts say a bullet train linking Northern and Southern California will be an incredible engineering feat because the line must cross two mountain ranges and a half-dozen earthquake faults.

Investigators say a Southern California police officer shot a trucker who threatened him with a pick ax.

A strike at a supermarket chain with stores in Northern California and Nevada is over after workers and the company reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.

Big numbers of salmon are climbing the new Auburn Ravine fish ladder in what a California environmentalist calls a fall spawning godsend.

The largest hospice program in San Diego County may lay off hundreds of employees to cope with financial problems because it may have violated Medicare regulations.

A Chihuahua stuffed into a burlap sack and dumped along a Southern California roadway is recovering at a Riverside animal adoption center.

Police say a Camp Pendleton Marine was shot and killed after striking an officer with his car in a parking garage in the California desert.

A television station reports that two people killed in a small plane crash in central California were a doctor and his father from the Midwest.

Healthier eating advocates have persuaded Los Angeles leaders to endorse meatless Mondays.

Chevron says it does not plan to increase production at its fire-damaged Richmond refinery after repairs are made, allowing the company to forego requirements to install the newest clean air technologies.

Police in Union City are looking into the grisly discovery of a man who died shortly after he was found unconscious in a garbage bin.

Authorities have reopened a major Southern California freeway after a downed power line across lanes backed up traffic for miles.

Three Oakland police officers have helped deliver a baby inside an SUV.

Veterans plan to resurrect a war memorial cross on a rocky outcropping in the Mojave Desert on Veteran's Day that was part of a 13-year legal battle over the separation of church and state.

Authorities say at least one person is dead after a small plane crashed in mountains northeast of Fresno.

People throughout Northern California are honoring military veterans with a series of ceremonies and other events Sunday.

Judy Garland's blue gingham dress she wore in "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for $480,000.

The GI Film Festival Hollywood has chosen Veterans Day weekend to launch its first event in Los Angeles.

Authorities say two residents of a Northern California assisted living facility have died and four others are hospitalized after eating soup with wild mushrooms.