Santa Monica has cut down 23 ficus trees and activists are calling it a shady move.
State officials say California has added 53,000 payroll jobs and its unemployment rate is holding steady.
Two school trustees dropped re-election bids Friday after being challenged by Nevada's top election official in what could have triggered a court battle over the state's voter-approved term limits.
A new veterans memorial in Santa Rosa won't be unveiled on Memorial Day as planned after organizers discovered dozens of additional names that need to be added.
A wrong-way driver slammed into a car full of people on Interstate 5 early Friday, killing two women and himself. Two other people were critically injured.
A Napa County jury has found a 26-year-old man not guilty by reason of insanity for killing a local cult leader.
Leaders of Southern California's Soboba Indian tribe are meeting with Riverside County sheriff's officials to discuss tensions arising from the killings of three people on the reservation during gunbattles with deputies.
Lifeguards in Oceanside are getting limited policing powers.
A 20-year-old Selma man has been indicted on federal charges of impersonating a federal drug enforcement agent so he could allegedly steal victims' identities.
A federal jury has convicted two Modesto men of running a criminal enterprise in connection with a medical marijuana dispensary they operated in the city.
Another U.S. flag was torched outside a Mission Viejo home, the second time this week, and this time flames spread to a eucalyptus tree.
Four men allegedly linked to a Lompoc area marijuana farm have been arrested for the September killing of a man whose body was left in a sleeping bag along Highway 154 near Los Olivos.
An accident on Bike to Work Day has claimed the life of a San Mateo man who rode his bicycle to work every day.
San Diego State University is using prominent alumni in a newspaper, radio and television public relations blitz to counter image problems after last week's massive campus drug bust.
Nearly 1,200 people who lost their health insurance after they incurred high medical expenses will get their coverage back.
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