State Says A Record Number Of School Districts In Financial Crisis
The California Department of Education says a record number of school districts are in financial dire straits this year, with a dozen facing insolvency.
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The California Department of Education says a record number of school districts are in financial dire straits this year, with a dozen facing insolvency.
California State University says it saw a 5 percent increase in applications for the fall 2012 semester, but has held admissions to about the same level as fall 2011.
Private rocket maker SpaceX is shooting for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that led to a launch abort over the weekend.
Authorities have seized hundreds of bales of marijuana that were floating in the ocean off of Southern California.
Los Angeles police say a man has been beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot and four people have been arrested.
The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937.
Millions in Asia and the western United States watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has exceeded the designated maximum pressure on its natural gas pipelines more than 120 times since the 2010 deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
A privately owned jet contracted by the military to play the enemy in training exercises crashed Friday in a Southern California farm field, killing the civilian pilot, authorities said.
California's nonpartisan legislative analyst said Friday the state's budget deficit could be higher than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated earlier this week but also found the administration's forecasts were reasonable.
Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown has moved a Northern California Indian tribe one step closer to building a casino about 50 miles north of San Francisco.
Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
Authorities in Southern California are investigating what appears to be the spontaneous combustion of rocks scooped from a San Clemente Beach that left a woman with third-degree burns.
A California museum says it has raised nearly half of the $200 million needed to build a permanent exhibit for the space shuttle Endeavour.
