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A Los Angeles County sheriff's statement says a man with guns in his Valencia home that overlooks two schools wrote an Internet post saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind murdering them. He was arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats.
A California man accused of kidnapping his two children and taking them on a stolen yacht for three days is due back in a San Mateo County courtroom.
California's Death Valley has racked up another extreme accolade — it's now deemed the world's hottest place.
Apple is holding an event in San Francisco during which it is announcing a new iPhone, capable of faster data speeds and sporting a taller screen.
The cable handrails that allow visitors to pull themselves up Half Dome in Yosemite National Park are joining a long list of other sites on the National Register of Historic Places.
After a day of "odor surveillance" and other scent-based sleuthing, Southern California air quality investigators confirmed Tuesday what they had already expected — that a pungent, rotten-egg aroma that stretched across the region came from the Salton Sea.
Regional air quality managers in Southern California are awaiting an analysis of air samples as they try to determine the source of a foul, rotten-egg odor that invaded the region Monday.
Los Angeles County health officials are warning that a record number of rabid bats have been found this year, and residents should avoid them.
A new report says California faces a dire shortage of schoolteachers as the number of college students in teacher-training programs has dropped by half during the past decade.
Hewlett-Packard is planning to cut about 2,000 more jobs than it had previously announced, as CEO Meg Whitman tries to turn the company around.
Two people have been rescued from a sinking plane that crashed into the ocean off California's central coast.
Fire officials say a change in the weather could make things more difficult for the thousands of firefighters who are battling wildfires burning across California.
Authorities say a car has crashed into a pizzeria in Los Angeles, killing three people and triggering a blaze.
A 300-pound bear that was spotted wandering across the Foothill (210) Freeway has been tranquilized, officials reported Sunday.
The body of missing Lafayette man Brett Michael Olson was found Sunday in the Sacramento River near the Butte-Glenn county line, a sheriff spokesman said.
