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Federal immigration authorities confirmed they had no contact with a Mexican national suspected of fatally shooting a Northern California police officer until the man's arrest last week.
Two men have been arrested in Redding after stealing FEMA trailers meant for Camp Fire victims.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is leaving office Jan. 7 after signing more than 1,000 laws in his last year, further positioning the state as a bastion of liberal activism and goad to President Donald Trump.
The origins of a suspected computer attack that disrupted the Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing newspapers remained unclear Sunday after causing delivery delays and being brought to the attention of federal investigators.
At year's end, California's effort to transform its longstanding illegal and medicinal marijuana markets into a unified, multibillion-dollar industry remains a work in progress. It's a mix of success stories, struggles and crashes.
A Southern California house where police say a couple tortured or abused most of their 13 children is for sale.
California authorities on a nearly four-day manhunt for an inmate who walked away from San Quentin State Prison captured him Saturday.
A Sacramento County woman is recovering Friday night after she was hit by a car while riding her skateboard in Citrus Heights. The driver, Angel Huerta, is behind bars and a Rio Linda man says he was hit by the same man 7 years ago.
The state's top prosecutor could charge PG&E with manslaughter if responsible for California's deadly wildfires.
Abdullah Hassan, the two-year-old with a degenerative brain condition whose mother fought the travel ban to enter the U.S., has died.
Starting on the first of the new year, a new law allows a judge to decide which parent gets to keep the animal.
A showdown was brewing at historic People's Park, over some trees the University of California was cutting down.
It was a matter of life and death in 2015 when California Gov. Jerry Brown pondered an assisted suicide bill granting terminally ill people the right to choose when they die.
The dog's adoption here in America is part of an international effort to rescue animals living in a Ukrainian disaster zone.
California's cash crop will remain a cash only industry, based on a new state-sponsored report revealed Thursday.
