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Air quality in the Bay Area and Central Valley is the poorest it's been in years. State fire officials have warned of an increased fire danger in Northern California, and ski resorts have been forced to turn to artificial snow.
The national unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent in December, the lowest rate in nearly three years, with the addition of 200,000 new jobs. But closer to home in Stockton, the lines were running long at a job fair on Friday.
Roughly 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores are closing after a dismal holiday season.
Several more national retailers have joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in pulling a batch of powdered infant formula from their shelves after a Missouri newborn died after drinking it.
Shoppers waited in the cold for hours at local stores just to get their hands on a new pair of the Air Jordan retro shoes.
Edith Atienza is visiting all the way from Florida to get a taste of a real winter, but there was no winter wonderland waiting for her in the Sierra.
A delivery dilemma is affecting some Best Buy customers who bought online. It turns out, many won't get the gifts they ordered on Black Friday in time for Christmas, if at all.
They say they ordered furniture, but their orders never arrived. And when they went to the store to complain, it was gone.
Olives are in high demand this season after local farmers struggled with a shortage. That trickled down to the olive oil business, which took a huge hit because of unusual weather.
Post offices are preparing for the holiday rush. Monday and Tuesday are projected to be the busiest mailing days of the year.
We're a little more than a week away from Christmas. CBS13's Derek Shore went to Arden Fair to see how shoppers are taking advantage of last-minute deals.
Compared to this time last year, the jobless rate is a full percentage point lower. That's the good news, but the not-so-good news is that the jobless rate in California is almost three percent higher than the national average.
If you've pulled the trigger on a new firearm this holiday season, join the club. As in your neighborhood shooting club, because faster than a speeding bullet, guns are going out the door.
A fed-up local businessman blamed the bad economy for bad work ethic. Monday night, he made a plea on CBS13: he was looking for good people to hire. The response was overwhelming.
In response to the news that a large waste-management business headquartered in Folsom is moving to Texas, the governor's office issued a statement Monday calling it "unfortunate" but that "California has added more new jobs in the last year than any other state."
