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Civil rights groups have expressed concern that a Trump administration could radically reshape the U.S. Department of Justice, particularly when it comes to policing but also in terms of the priority placed on hate crimes.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee says the city will remain a sanctuary despite statements from President-elect Donald Trump that he will deport millions of people who are in the country illegally.
Mendocino County authorities are searching for five suspects after a marijuana grower was killed during a robbery.
Authorities say a father and his teenage son died during an apparent hiking accident near Shaver Lake in Central California.
Kent State University is turning Hillary Clinton's life into a lesson with a new class focused on the Democrat who lost her presidential bid this past week. The course, titled "Hillary Clinton Case Study: Perspectives on Gender and Power," is being taught by the director of the school's women's studies program, Suzanne Holt.
A federal judge in Southern California has issued a preliminary injunction ordering immigration agents and judges to consider immigrants' ability to pay when setting bond. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said Friday that U.S. District Judge Jesus G. Bernal issued the ruling late Thursday.
Even though it's not yet certain if opponents lost both capital punishment ballot measures, they pre-emptively asked the state Supreme Court to block Proposition 66 that would speed up executions.
Some Facebook users received an unsettling shock Friday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the idea that fake news spread on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. election is "crazy."
President-elect Donald Trump launched his candidacy on an anti-immigrant sentiment and has vowed to repeal a key Obama administration program that shields hundreds of thousands of people from deportation.
The enemy is a known killer in parts of Asia: Parasites ingested in raw or poorly cooked river fish. These liver flukes attach to the lining of the bile duct and, over time, cause inflammation and scarring.
While the roots of a new industry are digging in to California society, those for, against, and tasked with regulating it are working on the limits of the law.
It's not the first time a state has reacted this way. Texas made threats in 2012 when President Obama won re-election.
The figure includes more than 3.1 million vote-by-mail ballots and a million provisional ballots. And the number may increase as counties are still receiving ballots that were postmarked by Election Day.
The number of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon spawning on the Sacramento River in Northern California and swimming out to sea has doubled from 2015, and it's significantly up from the prior year, officials said.
