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Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make it easier for the government to force psychiatric treatment for people with mental illness and expand statewide a still-developing test program that allows officials to more easily take control over those deemed unable to care for themselves.
A fund that offers only fire insurance to California residents in wildfire-prone areas can't be required to provide coverage for other hazards such as flooding or theft, a judge ruled this week.
It's been more than five weeks since 11-year-old Roman Lopez was found dead in Placerville.
Police are warning students about an attempted robbery that was reported on the Sacramento State University campus Wednesday morning.
The CDC confirmed Wednesday there are 12 patients currently being tested for the coronavirus at Nothern California hospitals.
The man newly charged in a decades-old murder case made his first court appearance in El Dorado County on Wednesday.
Newsom said this is a crisis than can't be solved overnight or even over the span of a year.
A U.S. judge ripped into Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday, saying its executives have put greed before safety.
A woman who is battling cancer while far away from home received a special message of hope from her daughter this week.
Detectives have arrested the two people suspected in the January killing of a 51-year-old man in Turlock.
An 8-year-old girl from Arkansas who recently lost her father had a night to remember when her school resource officer stepped in to take her to a father-daughter dance.
Stockton will be among the next group of cities getting emergency housing trailers for the homeless.
California should lower the legal bar for providing forced treatment to the mentally ill and building more homeless shelters, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in his second State of the State address.
Police say a person was found dead in Elk Grove on Wednesday morning.
A man and woman are under arrest on suspicion of breaking into cars in Rocklin.
