Antioch search underway for missing swimmer after second woman rescued
Police say the two women were swimming when they were caught in a strong current Wednesday evening.
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Police say the two women were swimming when they were caught in a strong current Wednesday evening.
Five months after being mistakenly released from the Contra Costa County Jail, a homicide suspect has been arrested, authorities said.
Smoke was expected to be visible for hours Sunday near Antioch due to a vegetation fire burning on an island near the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers confluence, firefighters said.
One person died in a multiple vehicle crash on Highway 4 near the Old River Bridge in the Discovery Bay area, officials said on Saturday.
Authorities in Contra Costa County have launched a homicide investigation following a fatal shooting near Bethel Island on Monday night.
Another swarm of earthquakes centered in San Ramon shook the East Bay on Monday morning, including a 4.2 magnitude quake felt across a wide swath of the Bay Area, authorities said.
Health officials in the East Bay said a man has died from consuming toxic wild mushrooms, amid an ongoing spike in mushroom-related poisonings throughout California.
Authorities in Contra Costa County announced Monday that they are searching for an inmate suspected of murder who was apparently released by mistake last week.
Never-before-released interrogations of Matthew Muller, the serial predator who kidnapped Denise Huskins in 2015, show his confessions to decades of other home invasions and sexual assaults.
Matthew Muller, whose 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins was chronicled in the Netflix docuseries "American Nightmare," was sentenced to another life term for a separate home invasion that occurred just weeks later in Contra Costa County.
A Discovery Bay resident said she heard the boat speeding into the harbor and was shocked at what she saw when she came outside.
A Sacramento County man is accused of multiple child sex crimes after an investigation into a tip that a Google account was uploading videos and photos of child pornography, authorities said on Wednesday.
A Vallejo resident is facing a dozen counts of commercial burglary and grand theft after stealing almost $25,000 worth of LEGO sets from Target stores in Walnut Creek and San Ramon, according to authorities.
Pittsburg police on Thursday announced they have arrested two women allegedly involved in an incident captured on video where one of the women kicked a small dog.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News California, Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn reveal the timeline of Matthew Muller's cold-case crimes. Crimes they helped solve. The survivors detail how it took a decade, a documentary, a small-town chief, and a rural district attorney to get anyone to listen.
A dozen California counties, including in the Bay Area and Northern California, are listed under a Pacific Gas and Electric public safety power shutoff watch on election night.
Contra Costa County officials announced that the mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, Zika and dengue fever have been found in the area.
A CBS News California investigation found roughly half of California voters will have someone new to the job running their presidential election this year.
A postal worker was the victim of an armed robbery in the community of Blackhawk near Danville late Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
About 16,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers, mainly in California's Central Valley, were warned that they may lose power in a Public Safety Power Shutoff event on Saturday due to high winds and dry conditions, PG&E announced Friday afternoon.
Police in Antioch are investigating the armed robbery of two Contra Costa County Fair employees early Monday morning who were depositing the fair revenue, according to authorities.
A preliminary 3.8 magnitude earthquake rattled eastern Contra Costa County Wednesday evening.
The big challenge: Each windmill blade being about 245 feet long, officials said.
A casino in Northern California has been linked to 11 tuberculosis cases over the past five years, prompting health officials to encourage both workers and visitors to get tested for what the World Health Organization calls "one of the world's top infectious killers."
A man was shot in Vacaville on Sunday morning and his shooter is on the loose.
