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Wildfires across the West are burning homes, businesses, highways and other infrastructure necessary for everyday life — and the disaster isn't over when the wildfire is snuffed out and the firefighters go home.
An FBI agent who vanished more than two months ago in Burbank has been found dead near his home.
California's move to tighten eligibility requirements for its Cal Grant program will eliminate or reduce awards to 14,500 students, most of them enrolled in for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix.
Backers of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a federal appeals court that struck down the measure as unconstitutional.
Military officials say two soldiers from Northern California have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan.
Firefighters are battling several wildfires burning across California, including an 800-blaze that prompted the evacuation of a campground in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Authorities are searching for a hiker who vanished after telling friends he planned to solo climb a nearly 14,000-foot peak in the Sierra Nevada.
Comedian Dane Cook is the headlines today after he cracked a joke about the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado during a stand-up routine.
More than $2 billion in California taxpayer money is apparently stashed in more than 500 special funds shielded from the Department of Finance, according to a new report.
A major portion of Oakland's year-old police radio system failed during President Barack Obama's visit to the city this week, in one what one lieutenant described as a "train wreck."
Federal officials are asking large ships to slow down as they approach San Francisco Bay to prevent collisions with whales.
Anaheim police say they have finally restored order Wednesday morning following a violent protest that prompted several arrests and left a Starbucks coffee shop damaged.
The FBI is looking for a bank robber dubbed the "Plain Jane Bandit" who is responsible for six Southern California heists.
Two people were injured when someone shot at a car containing several children on Interstate Highway 80 in Hercules on Tuesday night, police said.
Officials at the University of California, Berkeley are alerting students, staff and faculty to a family of mountain lions recently spotted on campus.
