UCLA First UC Campus To Impose Smoking Ban
The University of California is banning smoking on its 10 campuses in 2014, but UCLA has decided to go tobacco free this spring.
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The University of California is banning smoking on its 10 campuses in 2014, but UCLA has decided to go tobacco free this spring.
A Southern California basset hound named Buddy is dead after someone soaked the dog in lighter fluid and set him on fire.
Officials at San Quentin State Prison say the prison is on a medical lockdown after at least two inmates became sick with chickenpox.
Authorities are scaling back the search for a Southern California man missing in the Sierra Nevada.
The 10-year-old son of a neo-Nazi leader told his younger sister that he planned to shoot their father, then a day later took a gun from his parents' bedroom and fired one bullet into his father's head as the man slept on a couch, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday.
"Octomom" Nadya Suleman has checked herself into a rehabilitation center, citing anxiety, exhaustion and stress, a spokeswoman for the mother of 14 said Tuesday.
A decade after George Lucas said "Star Wars" was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theaters as The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion.
A Northern California judge is set to make a final ruling on whether victims of the deadly San Bruno pipeline blast can sue Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for punitive damages in civil court.
Residents and visitors to Lake Tahoe's west shore should expect to see smoke this week from a series of prescribed burns the U.S. Forest Service is conducting.
An Alameda County jury on Monday convicted a woman of first-degree murder in the gruesome death of her former friend, San Francisco Bay area nursing student Michelle Le, prosecutors said.
The rate at which California prison parolees commit new crimes has dropped slightly for the second straight year, an improvement that corrections officials partly attribute to recent rehabilitation efforts.
Google is adding a few more gadgets to holiday shopping lists.
olice in riot gear attempted to disperse crowds of people in the Mission District where several large piles of burning debris were dotting Mission and Valencia streets hours after the San Francisco Giants' World Series victory against the Detroit Tigers Sunday night.
The driver of a car that struck and killed a man outside a Southern California party is in jail for investigation of murder.
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale has struck a wilderness area of Central California.
