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The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's office announced Thursday the arrest a man who confessed to stealing a fire commander's wallet while he fought the CZU Lightning Complex Fire.
A downtown San Jose neighborhood is getting overrun by rats. It's happening in the Almaden and Vine area on Caltrans property beneath Interstate Highway 280, which has become a dumping ground for demolition materials with homeless camps all around.
A Santa Clara pastor posted a video this week after being slapped with $10,000 in fines for violating the health order.
The NHL postponed two days of playoff games Thursday after withering criticism from Black players who said the league was slow to acknowledge the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.
Monterey County residents affected by the River and Carmel fires can return home as fire evacuation and warning zones reopened on Thursday.
The search for two missing Santa Cruz County residents intensified Thursday as firefighters battled the massive CZU Lightning Complex fire that had grown to 81,333 acres in the timber-covered Santa Cruz Mountains overnight, was 21 percent contained and had destroyed at least 646 homes and buildings in two counties.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Deborah Ryan issued an order on Wednesday extending through January an emergency bail schedule intended to force much earlier release of detainees.
While improving weather conditions helped firefighters expand the containment of the massive SCU Lightning Complex fires to 35 percent overnight, a change in the weather forecast for later Thursday could create new challenges.
With California firefighters strapped for resources, residents have organized to put out flames themselves in a large swath of land burning south of San Francisco, defending their homes despite orders to evacuate and pleas by officials to get out of danger.
Acting on complaints from several former female students, Palo Alto police detectives have arrested a 74-year-old man on charges he sexually molested the teenagers at his residence during private math lessons between the years of 2002 and 2016.
The cities, counties and civil right groups involved in a lawsuit challenging the decision are asking a federal judge in San Jose to stop the Census Bureau from ending the head count at the end of September.
The CZU Lightning Complex fires grew to more than 80,000 acres by Wednesday morning in the thick forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains as Cal Fire officials reported 'significant progress' in slowing the advance of the flames that have destroyed at least 538 homes and structures in Santa Cruz County.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved another eviction moratorium extension on Tuesday.
San Jose and three other cities sued the federal government Wednesday to stop the proliferation of what are advertised as easy-to-assemble guns that require no serial numbers or background checks.
Taking advantage of improving weather conditions, hundreds of firefighters along the SCU Lightning Complex battle lines stretching through several San Francisco Bay Area counties gained ground overnight on the second largest wildfire in California history.
