Truckee asking residents and visitors to support their bid to be named as Powder Magazines Best Ski Town.

Detectives are trying to determine if anything was stolen during a break-in at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's Northern California wine country home.

Los Angeles County voters have approved a measure requiring porn performers to use condoms while filming sex scenes.

Two registered nurses in San Diego could lose their licenses because of videos that allegedly show the men engaging in sex acts at the bedside of a 98-year-old stroke patient.

Voters have decisively endorsed long-serving U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, sending the powerful Democrat back to the nation's capital for a fourth full term.

Police say a parolee clearly targeted co-workers at a chicken processing plant in Fresno, killing two people and wounding two others before killing himself.

The California Highway Patrol says three big-rig drivers were killed when their trucks burst into flames after one veered into the path of the other two on Interstate 5 near Bakersfield.

Authorities say that among the wounded victims, two are in critical condition. The other is in serious condition.

In its report released Tuesday, Field also estimated that 1 million fewer Californians will vote in this year's presidential contest than did in 2008.

A severely autistic Southern California teenager was left inside a school bus alone for nearly seven hours.

A fall heat wave is starting to ease after setting record highs throughout California.

A reputed gang member has been charged with four counts of attempted murder for allegedly opening fire outside a Halloween party on the University Southern California campus.

Officials say several miles of Interstate 15 in Southern California have been closed as a wildfire has grown to 200 acres amid Santa Ana winds and some evacuations have been ordered.

California's political watchdog agency is charging that an $11 million campaign contribution represents the largest case of campaign "money laundering" in state history.

Thousands of San Francisco kids apparently skipped school to attend last week's Giants World Series parade.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 21 cents over the past two weeks.

A disabled San Mateo woman is recovering but her wheelchair is out of service after she was hit by a hit-and-run driver last week.

A 50-year-old California woman has been arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order that required her to be at least 100 yards away from actor Jeff Goldblum.

Tuesday's general election will be a super-charged affair compared to California's sleepy primary in June, when less than a third of registered voters bothered to cast ballots.

The weekend box office was not only undeterred by the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, it was buoyed, as Disney's "Wreck it Ralph" opened strongly with $49.1 million.

There's no mistaking the similarities. A childhood on a dusty farm, a love of fast vehicles, a rebel who battles an overpowering empire - George Lucas is the hero he created, Luke Skywalker. That's why this week's announcement that Lucas is selling the "Star Wars" franchise.

The 18-year-old girlfriend of a 40-year-old former firefighter shot and killed in a gunfight with San Diego police has been charged with carjacking, robbery and criminal threats in an alleged crime spree that preceded it.

Union leaders and management officials for Northern California-based Raley's are back at the bargaining table in a last-ditch effort to avoid what would be the first strike in the chain's 77-year history.

Authorities say an Orange County mother must pay $15,000 for gang graffiti sprayed in 23 different incidents.

Scientists say initial sampling of Mars' atmosphere by the NASA rover Curiosity did not definitively detect methane, a gas that can be a clue to determining if the red planet ever was hospitable to microbial life.