Officials say two state Department of Transportation workers have been killed while removing rocks from a hillside above a rural Northern California highway.

Los Angeles police say an 18-year-old student who was stabbed on the campus of a San Fernando Valley high school has died.

The South Lake Tahoe Police Department has arrested a man on several felony charges.

A registered nurse has been convicted of abusing a severely autistic man in San Diego County by twisting his arm, pulling his hair and poking him in the eye.

The Mountain of Strings concert is bringing bluegrass to Lake Tahoe this weekend.

Democrats in the Nevada Senate pushed through a bill repealing Nevada's threat to leave the decades old Tahoe Compact.

Sacramento Bee reporting San Francisco's City Attorney opens investigation into Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital patients being bused to their city.

A Reuters deputy social media editor accused of conspiring with hackers to deface a Los Angeles Times story says he has been fired.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 11 cents over the past two weeks.

Police in Southern California say that NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

A newspaper is reporting that technology firms, banks and other companies are fighting a proposed Internet privacy law that would require companies to show consumers the personal data they've collected on them and how it's being used.

A state lawmaker wants to set basic standards for the short-term day care centers that are growing in popularity at fitness centers, shopping malls, grocery stores and other businesses.

Authorities say nearly 100 homes remain evacuated as firefighters with help from water-dropping helicopters and an air tanker make advances on a stubborn brush fire in foothills east of Los Angeles.

Ventura County will weigh whether to require porn actors to wear condoms during filming similar to a law adopted by Los Angeles County voters last year.

A plan being pushed by California lawmakers would give immigrants living in the country illegally - and legal residents who can't afford health insurance but don't qualify for Medi-Cal - basic low-cost health care.

With auto officials saying driverless cars could be available by the end of the decade, California officials want to hear from the public on how to regulate the vehicles.

California safety regulators have fined a Disney contractor $60,995 after a worker was injured while cleaning the Space Mountain ride.

A dead body found in a trash container in Oakland may be that of a man who has been missing since he allegedly was in a car crash following a police pursuit.

A San Diego police detective has pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges after crashing his patrol car into a roadside utility box.

California's high-speed rail authority changed its rules for selecting a company to build the system's first phase so equal weight was given to the cost of the bids and their technical rating, which includes safety and design quality.

A Riverside couple is suing police for $350,000 for shooting their pit bull, named Brad Pitt.

Something was missing from San Francisco's ritualized remembrance of the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed much of the city: for the first time, no survivors of the world-famous Great Quake were on hand for the event.

Two environmental groups are suing the federal government over the December auction of nearly 18,000 acres of oil leases on prime public lands in Central California.

Tests of pipe samples from Chevron Corp.'s refinery in El Segundo found corrosion to an extent similar to the pipe that failed and caused a large fire at the company's Richmond facility.

A fund that is distributing money from a national settlement with mortgage lenders is giving 21 California organizations a total of $9.4 million to help borrowers who face the loss of their homes to foreclosure.