Girl, 7, Drowns In Merced River
Family members are mourning the death of a 6-year-old girl from the San Francisco Bay area who drowned Sunday in the Merced River.
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Family members are mourning the death of a 6-year-old girl from the San Francisco Bay area who drowned Sunday in the Merced River.
Crews continue to make progress as they battle a wildfire along Interstate 5 in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California.
Fire officials were bracing for the possibility of lightning-sparked fires across a wide area of Northern California as a number of thunderstorms move into the region.
A detailed review of more than 500 state special funds released Friday found hundreds of millions of dollars in accounting discrepancies but no instances beyond the state parks department in which government officials purposely underreported the amount of money.
Los Angeles attorney Molly Munger has donated another $5 million to her November tax initiative.
The culture war against Chick-fil-A has come to one of the chain's Southern California fast-foot restaurants.
A lost northern fur seal that showed up on a Hawaii beach thousands of miles from home is flying to California.
Authorities are trying to determine if a man who climbed a tower on the Golden Gate Bridge Thursday evening is still on the structure.
U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring.
State medical board officials say a Los Angeles plastic surgeon has been charged with secretly videotaping two of his patients after they had undressed for their examinations.
A 2-inch plastic gas pipe ruptured Thursday in the same San Francisco suburb where a pipeline explosion killed eight people in 2010, prompting more than a dozen homes to be briefly evacuated.
Officials in San Bernardino, which is facing an expected $46.8 million budget deficit this year, have formally filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, a move that city leaders approved last month.
The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever and generating lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies.
Visitors to the north shore of Lake Tahoe will have a new option for getting around.
The operator of the ailing San Onofre nuclear power plant in California says the company has been saddled with $48 million in inspection and repair costs related to damage to tubes that carry radioactive water.
