Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake Strikes Fiji Islands
The U.S. Geological Survey says a strong earthquake struck in the Fiji Islands region, but a tsunami is not expected.
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The U.S. Geological Survey says a strong earthquake struck in the Fiji Islands region, but a tsunami is not expected.
A collision between a 2007 Saturn and a light rail train in San Jose left one person dead and another injured Saturday evening.
Deep-Fried Wood Fired Pastrami Pizza took home first place in the Alameda County Fair's second annual Snackdown competition.
Summer arrived in California on Sunday with fire season in full swing, as crews knocked down dozens of small blazes throughout the state and slowed the spread of a huge forest fire in the San Bernardino Mountains.
With a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage expected any day now, gay couples in states with bans are making wedding plans, courthouse officials are getting ready for different scenarios and steadfast foes are working on their strategies to keep up the opposition.
California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate and it's unclear if the tough steps state officials took to stop illicit drugs from getting into prisons are having any effect.
Eastbound state Highway 4 in Pittsburg was closed Saturday afternoon because of police activity involving a driver who crashed, apparently after having been fatally shot.
A crop-dusting pilot was killed when his Bell 47 helicopter went down near Salinas Saturday morning.
A female pedestrian died Saturday evening after northbound Caltrain No. 445 struck her at 7:20 p.m. in Sunnyvale just north of the Sunnyvale station.
Authorities say three farm workers were killed and five others hospitalized after a van overturned on a Central California highway.
Ashley Donohoe, 22, the lone American among the dead and her cousin, 21-year-old Olivia Burke, were memorialized Saturday in a Catholic Mass in Cotati.
Hot, dry California was beginning to feel the full brunt of fire season as blazes burned throughout the state, though most areas dodged any serious destruction.
Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "common-sense" gun reforms and a national reckoning with the persistent problem of "institutional racism" in a speech to the nation's mayors in San Francisco on Saturday.
The United States Coast Guard is trying to locate and notify the owner of a boat found submerged and leaking diesel fuel in a South San Francisco marina early Saturday morning.
The rifles appear to be valuable antiques that detectives believe had been stolen.
