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The large male cougar that rattled nerves when it spent much of a day behind a hedge in a Mountain View neighborhood earlier this year was struck and killed by a car on a San Francisco Bay Area freeway.
An attorney says a woman who spent 17 years in prison for murder will be exonerated and released.
President Barack Obama is on a three-day fundraising swing through California and what he says at some of his stops will be anybody's guess.
The U.S. Forest Service says in a statement that after a "grueling month" for firefighters, the so-called King Fire 60 miles northeast of Sacramento was 100 percent surrounded Thursday.
House Democrats are canceling $2.8 million in advertising in a competitive race in Virginia and steering the money to California to boost vulnerable freshman Rep. Ami Bera.
Her family wants Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo to issue what would be an unprecedented order declaring her to be alive after being declared brain dead.
Officials fear fire retardant that was installed in the schools in the 1960s may be deteriorating.
A solar-energy company has dropped a proposal to build a 75-story tower in California that uses a new kind of technology that can cause some birds to ignite in midair.
Apple has sent invites to an Oct. 16 event during which it's expected to show off new iPad models and an update to its Mac OS system.
U.S. officials have ordered agents at airports and other entry ports to observe arriving travelers for Ebola signs.
An air tanker sent to take on a wildfire smashed into a canyon wall on the edge of Yosemite National Park, killing the pilot, sending wreckage tumbling to the ground below and leaving onlookers shocked at the grim spectacle.
It's a choice the 29-year-old moved from California to Oregon to make, as she's dying of brain cancer. She made the move to put the end of her life on her own terms.
State officials on Tuesday reported the largest monthly decline in water use this year as the severity of California's drought hits home, with community wells running dry, farm fields turning to dust and once massive reservoirs becoming vast mudflats.
The National Weather Service is cautioning Southern California beachgoers to expect more high surf and strong rip currents due to a southeasterly swell from former Hurricane Simon.
A Californian man accused of posing as an actor from the "Twilight" movie series now faces federal child pornography charges.
