Police do not plan to seek charges against a man who spotted two 17-year-olds holding up a deli in Salinas, retrieved a handgun from his car and shot them both.
Federal officials say they have arrested a man at Los Angeles International Airport after a smoke grenade, knives, gas mask, leg irons, body bags and a variety of weapons were discovered in luggage.
Rampant fraud within California's recycling redemption program is costing the state millions, as scammers drive trucks full of cans across the border from Nevada and Arizona to collect nickels on deposits that were never paid.
Police are asking for the public's help with any possible information after a woman was found dead in her home in the usually quiet Bay Area city of Hercules.
During a campaign swing through California, President Barack Obama will establish a national monument on the property that was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and his farmworker movement.
It's a record, though just barely. The price of gasoline has hit an all-time average high in California of $4.6140 a gallon, fueled by a reduced supply and a volatile market.
San Francisco is facing its own possible "Carmeggedon" this weekend, as an unusual convergence of high-attendance sporting and entertainment events is expected to bring as many as a million people into the densely populated bayside city.
The cost of gasoline in California jumped 8 cents overnight and is poised to soar to the highest point this year in what analysts say is a supply problem fueled by refinery and pipeline outages.
A 12-year-old Southern California boy behind the wheel of the family car has led deputies on a chase that ended with a crash and the car bursting into flames.
Fire officials are crediting the efforts of homeowners in creating so-called defensible space for saving some of their homes from a brushfire in rural El Dorado County Tuesday.