As hundreds of blazes continued to char California on Saturday, embattled firefighters were getting more reinforcements from the National Guard and from other countries.
California Highway Patrol officers are trying to determine why an Irish woman was crossing U.S. Highway 101 in Burlingame early this morning, where a truck fatally struck her.
Feral cats at California State University Long Beach have been given their marching orders. The reason? They are a tempting food source that has been attracting coyotes to the campus.
Boy About Town", a well-known blogger and video producer in Long Beach, has been arrested on charges stemming from a probation violation involving charges he skipped after ripping off the Red Cross in Florida. The blogger, aka Patric Ian Henn,
Police are on the hunt Saturday for a man they say stabbed his wife to death during a domestic altercation at their home in Lancaster. Police say the unidentified man stabbed his wife just after 2 a.m.
San Francisco community organizer Julie Lee, whose questionable fundraising helped push former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley out of politics, was found guilty Friday of federal criminal charges in an alleged plot to funnel state grant money to...
San Franciscans will be dancing in the streets - literally- after Mayor Gavin Newsom's office obtained the necessary permits this week to shut down 6 miles of thoroughfare during two Sundays this summer and turn the pavement into a party
San Francisco officials have given up the identities of 10 potential illegal immigrants housed at juvenile hall since Mayor Gavin Newsom declared that the city would stop shielding young drug offenders from federal deportation, officials said Friday. "I'm...
A 1-year-old girl died at a hospital Friday night after being accidentally run over by her mother earlier that afternoon in Oakland, police said. The girl was playing in the driveway and her mother, whose several other children were inside
A man who was shot and killed on a Mission District street corner was identified today as Armando Estrada, 30, of Rodeo, a San Francisco deputy medical examiner said. Estrade was shot at 12: 10 p.m. Friday at Mission and
Dry winds and hot weather plagued firefighthers in Butte County today, despite significant progress on the deadly Butte Lightning Complex Fire that is now more than half contained. In Big Sur, tourists returned to the resort area on Highway One,
The dockworkers union instituted a 15-minute work stoppage Friday at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach amid ongoing contract talks, according to an association representing West Coast ports.
A male pedestrian, struck by a car Thursday and still in a coma, remains unidentified Saturday in Redondo Beach. Police need help to identify the man, about 45-60 years old. They also said he has graying blond hair and that
A man was shot and killed this afternoon at the same intersection in San Francisco's Mission District where three people were wounded in an attack Thursday night, police said. The man was shot shortly after noon at 20th and Mission
A state Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday prohibiting University of California service employees from going on a scheduled five-day strike next week. Judge Patrick Mahoney said in his ruling that the strike likely would cause...
Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge will cost an extra dollar starting in September, with another increase likely for many commuters within the next year. The bridge district's Board of Directors voted 12-0 Friday to raise the cost of crossing
