California

Police in the San Francisco Bay Area arrested a man on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing his own grandmother.

Bay Area Republican leaders have confirmed that the party is suing California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s vote-by-mail order, claiming that the system opens itself up to inaccuracy and fraudulent voting.

The California murder trial of real estate heir Robert Durst is likely to move to a new venue this summer, depending on how a judge rules on a defense motion for a mistrial.

A woman in the San Francisco Bay Area has been arrested on suspicion of posting handwritten messages at several homes, targeting Asian Americans and suggesting that those not native to the United States should leave the country immediately

The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the prestigious university system.

Dr. Stephen Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach, released his annual ranking of beaches in the U.S. Hawaii took the crown last year, but this year, the best beach is on the East Coast.

Californa Gov. Gavin Newsom promised film and television industry leaders Wednesday that new state guidelines will allow production to start up again in some counties, providing relief to workers forced to hit pause to stop the spread of coronavirus. Newsom made the announcement during an Economic Recovery and Reinvention Listening Tour virtual roundtable with industry leaders, who estimate that 890,000…

Joshua Tree National Park in California has announced this week that it will be taking a phased approach to reopening to the public.

Former Navy combat pilot Mike Garcia won an improbable victory for an open U.S. House seat _ running as a Trump Republican in a district on the fringe of heavily Democratic Los Angeles

A man was hiking in Madera County, California, when he was swept into a whirlpool. Luckily, an off-duty officer was nearby.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had the right to ban church assemblies in the interest of public health during the coronavirus outbreak, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Watch as protesters arrived and congregated at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out at government stay at home orders as “fascist” in an expletive-laced rant on Tesla’s Q1 2020 earnings call. While answering analysts’ questions about liquidity amid the coronavirus pandemic, Musk called shelter-in-place orders “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.”

Federal authorities announced the arrest Monday of two California businessmen who allegedly sought to earn millions from the coronavirus pandemic by selling masks they didn’t have.

Californians will be tempted to hit the beaches as temperatures get warmer, but local and health officials are warning the consequences could be bad if people don’t follow social distancing measures.

With life on the U.C. Berkeley Campus shutdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of current and former Cal students have taken to crafting a virtual version of the campus in the video game Minecraft.

A black California man who killed three white people in Fresno in 2017 was convicted of murder Wednesday in the racially motivated rampage, NBC News reports.

The Sacramento Bee reports that the former mayor of a Northern California city who stepped down after he harshly criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters died Saturday in a plane crash

In just a few days, the monster Camp Fire in Northern California tore through a Butte County community to become the state’s most destructive wildfire on record.