Illicit Drugs 'Rampant' In California State Prisons
California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate
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California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate
Authorities say three farmworkers were killed and five others hospitalized after a van overturned on a Central California highway.
Authorities in Santa Barbara County have rescued a kayaker who spent 14 hours at sea.
Hot, dry California was beginning to feel the full brunt of fire season as blazes burned throughout the state, threatening hundreds of homes, although most areas dodged serious destruction.
A pickup truck that caught fire along a Central California road has sparked a wildfire, burning hundreds of acres and shutting down several campgrounds.
Airline seats on flights back to Ireland are needed for the families of the Irish students killed in the Berkeley balcony collapse Tuesday
About 40 children became ill while swimming at a city-run water park in Antioch after excessive chlorine apparently leaked into the water.
California lost out last year in a heated bidding war for the company's $5 billion battery factory. Brown said then that he didn't think what Tesla sought would be fair to taxpayers. Nevada won after offering $1.3 billion in tax breaks.
California state officials released reports Thursday detailing six accidents that involved self-driving car prototypes, reversing a policy that had shielded details of how the next-generation technology is performing during testing on public roads.
Police say a 66-year-old Buddhist monk was critically injured after he was stabbed by a fellow monk in a home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mother Nature isn't the only one blamed for California's drought.
Gunshot-detecting sensors that can pinpoint the exact location of shots fired have been installed in the first U.S. high school in hopes police could arrive directly at the scene of a potential school shooting.
A woman who lost a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit against a Silicon Valley venture capital firm is liable for about a quarter of the roughly $1 million in legal costs the company is seeking, a judge said Wednesday in a tentative ruling.
AT&T Mobility LLC has been slapped with a record $100 million fine for offering consumers "unlimited" data, but then slowing their Internet speeds after they reached a certain amount. The company says it will fight the charges.
Police are investigating poultry producer Foster Farms after an animal-rights group shot undercover video showing chickens being slammed upside-down into metal shackles, punched and having their feathers pulled out while they were still alive.
