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Police in Livermore faced with a pair of fatal teen overdoses in the space of two days were warning parents Tuesday to talk to their children about the dangers of experimenting with drugs bought on the street.
A 46-year-old Reno woman is being held on $50,000 bail after her arrest as a suspect in the kidnapping of a child at a home in south Reno.
A Southern California man who says he was sexually abused by his parish priest decades ago has sued all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Four members of a militant white supremacist group from California have been arrested on charges they traveled to Virginia last year to incite a riot and attack counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally that turned deadly.
Driven in part by family tragedy, San Francisco Mayor London Breed has repeatedly pledged to open what could be the first supervised drug injection site in the country.
California is continuing a years-long easing of criminal penalties even as it increases public scrutiny of law enforcement.
Residents of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood packed a community meeting on Monday night to voice their concerns about the increase of homelessness in the area.
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a Nevada woman who said he raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatched a team of "fixers" to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for $375,000.
A night at the Opera ended with a terrifying real-life drama for a woman when she sat near a deranged BART passenger who was yelling at riders and waving a machete.
Police announced early Monday evening that they have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Richmond whose body was found in Chabot Park.
The federal gun possession trial of the undocumented immigrant who possessed the gun that killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015 has been postponed for at least several months while a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a different case is awaited.
A new ride-sharing service geared toward women worried about their safety is rolling out in San Francisco.
A 12-count criminal complaint has been filed against a groundskeeper who worked at a school near Walnut Creek and is accused of child molestation, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.
A shelter-in-place order at Mission San Jose Elementary School in Fremont has been lifted after police arrested a residential burglary suspect in a nearby neighborhood, according to police.
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed two bills into law on Sunday that will increase access to law enforcement records and body camera footage, according to state officials.
