State News

A judge has ruled that a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary targeted for closure under the city's three-month-old ordinance can remain open for now.

A former food company executive at the center of a tomato price-fixing investigation was released from jail Friday on $6 million bail.

Authorities are using dental records to try to identify human remains that were found in a remote cove near the Golden Gate Bridge.

A shootout in the Sacramento suburbs has left a pharmacy worker dead and police hunting for two robbers of a North Highlands drugstore.

A Sacramento restaurant has agreed to stop serving live shrimp after an animal-rights group said the practice was cruel to the shellfish.

People throughout the San Francisco Bay Area are being urged to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and limit driving as much as possible on Friday because of smoggy, unhealthy air.

A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was believed to be among the dead.

The gunman who took hostages at the Discovery Channel's headquarters had his first run-in with the law in California.

An ongoing drought has led the federal government to declare a disaster area in the California-Oregon border region in an effort to bring relief to stricken farmers and ranchers.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.