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Corrections officials made several "substantial" procedural errors when they adopted new lethal injection rules, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in a decision that could further delay a resumption of executions in California.
A $7.6 million youth center five years in the making may close before it has a chance to open. While the West Oakland facility is almost finished, the city is having problems finding the money to run it.
In response to a recent spate of four homicides, San Jose police were deploying extra units of special operations and gang suppression officers this weekend.
A University of California, Santa Cruz security guard was arrested on suspicion of planning a large-scale robbery and possessing a cache of illegal guns and ammunition, police said.
Minimum-wage workers in California would see their first raises in six years under a bill that has passed the state Assembly.
A coalition of local organizations have aligned themselves against a part of the federal immigration reform proposal that would change the existing family reunion program.
Tunneling work for the Central Subway project in San Francisco is set to begin in the coming weeks, with the underground work beginning at 4th and Harrison streets.
A woman who was abandoned in a car in front of a Concord home as a day-old baby came face to face for the first time this week with the woman who found her.
California is getting an early look at how President Barack Obama's health care reform measure will work. The Golden State was the first in the nation to set up a health insurance exchange.
The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses," which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.
The state Senate has rejected a bill that would have phased out the use of single-use plastic checkout bags in grocery, drug and convenience stores.
A San Jose elementary school was closed as police investigated a fatal shooting that happened nearby early Thursday morning.
Three men arrested for a triple shooting in San Francisco's Mission District earlier this week pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder charges.
The California Highway Patrol arrested a Marin City man on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run Wednesday night after his vehicle collided head-on with another car on state Highway 1 in west Marin County.
A crew digging at a construction site in Woodside Thursday morning ruptured a gas main and knocked out service to one customer
