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Joseph James DeAngelo, who police believe is the Golden State Killer, appeared in a California court Friday, but did not enter a plea to the murder charges he faces in the 1978 deaths of Katie and Brian Maggiore.
Approximately 250 people who were evacuated from their apartments after a massive fire Tuesday at a construction site in Concord next to their building can return home.
Port of Oakland commissioners on Thursday approved a one-year agreement for exclusive negotiations with the Oakland A's baseball team about the Howard Terminal site as the possible location for a new ballpark, port officials said Friday.
Investigators who used a genealogical website to find the ex-policeman they believe is a shadowy serial killer and rapist who terrified California decades ago call the technique ground-breaking.
Joseph James DeAngelo's neighbors said he kept to himself and sometimes yelled at people who got too close to his fence or mowed their grass too early.
Stressed-out University of California at Berkeley students cramming for final exams will have a chance to hug a llama -- actually, six llamas -- as Llamapalooza takes place on campus Friday.
A fearful feline was rescued Thursday from a drainage pipe near the San Francisco Outlets in Livermore.
A free speech lawsuit against officials at the University of California, Berkeley can move forward, although there is no evidence the school discriminated against speakers with conservative views, a U.S. judge ruled.
Demolition crews were set to begin the challenging task of removing tons of charred ands smoldering debris from the site of a Concord apartment complex construction site fire Thursday.
A former police officer has been arrested and accused being an elusive serial killer and rapist known as the "Golden State Killer," suspected in at least 12 murders, 51 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California in the 70s and 80s.
A BART extension to two new stations in Pittsburg and Antioch will debut with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and free preview rides on May 25, transit agency officials said Wednesday.
Firefighters kept a watchful eye over the smoldering ruins of a massive Concord apartment project construction site Wednesday as concerns continued over the stability of the burned out structure.
A three-alarm fire at a five-story, under-construction apartment building in downtown Concord early Tuesday left two people injured and forced the evacuation of around 250, according to Contra Costa Fire Protection District.
A Bay Area homeowner who recently caught a couple of thieves red-handed trying to break into her house was able to use her home security system to scare them off from 19 miles away.
Oakland community organizers and politicians will gather on the steps of Frank H. Ogawa plaza Monday afternoon to demand a repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
