With the unofficial kickoff to summer looming, the issue of parking at California state beaches is heating up.

Newsroom employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press have voted to cut ties with the Teamsters, the union that has represented them through years of legal struggles with management over control of the newspaper.

Gov. Jerry Brown is blocking parole for an inmate who is serving a life sentence for executing a prison guard 36 years ago during a series of armed robberies.

The owner of the Italian entry in the America's Cup sailing races says his boat will compete this summer, but he's seeking new safety measures after the death of a sailor on another crew during a training run last week.

A Port of Oakland longshoreman died after his truck plunged into the San Francisco Bay.

The state's independent budget analyst says California will take in $3.2 billion more than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated, providing Democratic lawmakers the opportunity to increase spending.

A person familiar with the deal says the Maloof family has reached an agreement with a Sacramento group headed by software tycoon Vivek Ranadive to sell a 65 percent controlling interest in the Kings at a total franchise valuation of $535 million.

Swine flu has been detected in elephant seals off the Central California coast.

A California agency is set to adopt a broad, long-range plan to restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and provide a reliable water supply to cities and farms.

The weeklong search for a Northern California man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters is being scaled back.

State officials have agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California's sale of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds, allowing a trial to begin later this month.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by opponents of a Native American casino under construction in Northern California.

Federal prosecutors say ten people have been arrested in connection to six cold case murders and a Montebello gang's drugs and weapons activity.

Kern County fire officials say a wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest has quickly ripped through 2,500 acres, despite a heavy aerial effort to beat back flames.

Sheriff's deputies and K-9 teams continue to search a San Jose neighborhood for a man a sheriff's spokesman is describing as a "person of interest" after a 1-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman were stabbed to death in a home in an unincorporated part of the city.

NBA owners voted Wednesday to reject the Sacramento Kings' proposed move to Seattle, the latest in a long line of cities that have tried to land the franchise.

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Authorities have found the body of an autistic Northern California 9-year-old who went missing from her family's vacation home.

A research firm says the San Francisco Bay area's median home price surged 17 percent in just one month, to pass the half-million dollar mark for the first time in five years.

San Francisco police have arrested at least two people in an early-morning raid on squatters at an abandoned church.

The San Francisco Fire Department has lost a $7.8 million federal grant for the first new fireboat in 50 years because it didn't spend the money in time.

Sacramento County Sheriff's officials say a deputy shot and wounded a robbery suspect inside a pharmacy with an employee just a few feet away.

An attorney for a 12-year-old California boy arrested in the stabbing death of his sister says the youngster might have lied about seeing a long-haired intruder fleeing the scene but that doesn't make the boy the killer.

A federal judge in California has ruled that the U.S. government was negligent in the death of a boy killed when a retaining wall crushed him at Lassen Volcanic National Park

The America's Cup will go on as planned after the death of a sailor during a training run last week on San Francisco Bay.