California's Unemployment Rate Dips To 6.3 Percent
California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in April to 6.3 percent as the economic recovery created nearly 30,000 new jobs.
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California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in April to 6.3 percent as the economic recovery created nearly 30,000 new jobs.
The company responsible for a pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil along the California coast was ordered to take a series of steps before it can restart the line, federal regulators said Friday.
Authorities say a man believed to be high on drugs jumped through a plate glass window and ran naked and bloody through the streets of a town on California's central coast.
A Los Angeles firefighter has been convicted of assaulting a woman who fed cats in his neighborhood.
Crews are investigating the cause of a fire that sent crews on a rescue mission through a fourplex. When fire crews arrived to the fire on Greenholme Drive, near Hillsdale Boulevard, they found smoke in the area.
A fire at an apartment in Sacramento sent one person to the hospital. One unit was completely destroyed by the fire at the Parkwood Square apartments on Bluebird Lane near Howe and El Camino avenues.
An unusual confluence of events means it could be months before a transgender California inmate knows if she will have the sex reassignment surgery that she says is critical to her mental health.
A look at five of the best upcoming major sporting events in America.
Sometime late on Tuesday, someone broke into Preservation And Co., a specialty food store in Downtown Sacramento. They cleaned out the register, grabbed laptops, cash, cameras and T-shirts and even jars of pickles.
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy was scheduled for the sex-change procedure in July after an order from a lower-court judge, but after she was found eligible for parole, the state decided there is no evidence the treatment is immediately necessary.
Each one has her own personal war story, but Laura Tyrrell, Cindy Pico, and Carol Garcia have worked for years to turn their rough journeys into something positive.
According to the state legislative analyst's office, a basic stop sign ticket in California starts at about $35. But if you factor in a state surcharge, state and county penalty assessment fees and other court costs, that $35 ticket is now $238.
The rights go back to Gold Rush days. It's first-come, first-served for the rights holders when it comes to taking water. The state has never ordered cuts to senior water rights holders.
The new language in a proposed bill caught the attention of media lobby groups, including the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Attorney Jim Ewert says social services wants to "describe" or summarize how a child dies instead of providing actual records.
California State Parks officials say they're concerned recreational boaters won't realize the potential dangers the lower water levels bring.
