California Tsunami Scenario Would Be A Swamped Economy
If a monster earthquake struck off Alaska's coast, tsunami waves would rush toward California, swamping the nation's largest port complex and causing major economic damage.
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If a monster earthquake struck off Alaska's coast, tsunami waves would rush toward California, swamping the nation's largest port complex and causing major economic damage.
A second person has been found deceased at the scene of a one-alarm fire in a mobile home in San Leandro Wednesday morning, according to Alameda County fire officials.
An immigrant who graduated law school and passed the state's notoriously tough test for lawyers is asking the state Supreme Court to certify him over the objections of the Obama administration.
A musician who admitted smuggling marijuana inside drums on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu was sentenced Tuesday to three months in federal detention and three months of home confinement.
A former doctor at a South Bay hospital is accused of taking money intended for cancer research to pay his own bills.
Two women killed early Monday in a hit-and-run collision near Mineta San Jose International Airport have been identified.
Evacuation orders and advisories were lifted Tuesday for several Sierra Nevada communities once threatened by a raging wildfire in and around Yosemite National Park.
A federal jury on Tuesday afternoon found a former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and extortion for aiding a former private investigator in arranging so-called "dirty DUI" arrests in Danville.
State officials could set up a pilot program to test digital license plates under a bill advancing through the Legislature.
The San Jose Police Department has started a new method of documenting "limited detentions," or stops in which people are temporarily ordered to sit on a curb or in a police cruiser during an investigation, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Hours after Bay Area drivers made their way across the Bay Bridge's new eastern span for the first time on Monday night, dozens of people pedaled and walked on the span's newly opened bike and pedestrian path Tueday morning.
An international jury has levied the harshest penalties in the 162-year history of the America's Cup, docking defending champion Oracle Team USA two points in the finals against Emirates Team Zealand and expelling a key sailor.
An Oakland man has been found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting and killing his friend during an alcohol and cocaine-fueled argument over the existence of God.
California prison officials have confirmed that inmates can get married to someone of the same sex under certain conditions.
Nearly three years after a gas pipeline explosion tore through a San Bruno neighborhood, the city's mayor continued his push for regulatory reforms in the wake of the disaster.
