Firefighter dies in California fire started by gender reveal gathering

Cal Fire Capt. Bennett Milloy also said that the death, the only one so far as a result of this El Dorado Fire, will also change the nature of the criminal investigation of the couple who hosted the gathering

'No more Zoom:' Fed up with distance learning, families rally for in-person education

About 100 people took part: parents, students and teachers who are upset that the pandemic will keep everyone out of the classroom until 2021, regardless of the progress the county makes in its Covid-19 data.

California mother files fertility fraud suit, alleging doctor used his own sperm to impregnate her

In one case, a Livermore woman said that she wanted her sperm donor to be Christian and share her husband's ethnicity. She was horrified when she found out her childrens' biological father turned out to be her Jewish doctor. 

88-year-old man killed by police used to work for West Sacramento PD

Robert Coleman died during the encounter with West Sacramento police officers early Saturday, the Yolo County Coroner’s Office said. Police officials said Coleman was armed with a handgun.

Harris, home in California, gets a look at wildfire damage

She didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name on Tuesday, but her remarks came a day after he visited California and again cast doubt on the science behind climate change.

California governor gently confronts Trump on climate change

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had President Donald Trump one-on-one on live TV Monday, a perfect opportunity to spar with Democrats’ public enemy No. 1 just 50 days before the election.

LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva challenges Lebron James to match reward money for gunman who ambushed two deputies

"This challenge is to Lebron James. I want you to match that and double that reward," Villanueva said. "I know you care about law enforcement. You expressed a very interesting statement about your perspective on race relations and on officer-involved shootings and the impact that it has on the African-American community.

San Francisco philanthropist Ann Getty dies at age 79

A native of Wheatland, California, Ann Getty and her husband Gordon Getty, an oil heir and billionaire philanthropist, were a regular presence of San Francisco’s upper-crust society events.

Satellite video shows smoke from West Coast wildfires being pulled into Pacific cyclone

In the video, taken by the GOES-WEST satellite above the Pacific Ocean, a dark grey cloud of smoke from the Western wildfires is blown over the Pacific Ocean and is swept up into the cyclone — swirling into a cyclonic low pressure system.

California wildfires raise fight over climate change ahead of Trump's visit

Trump is headed to McClellan Park, a former air base just outside Sacramento, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said he would be meeting with Trump.

Search continues for gunman who shot LA County deputies

Officials asked for the public’s help in identifying the gunman in a weekend ambush after officials offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

16-year-old boy among those killed in North Complex Fire, California's deadliest blaze of year

The North Complex fire near the small city of Oroville that exploded in wind-driven flames earlier in the week was advancing more slowly Friday after the winds eased and smoke from the blaze shaded the area and lowered the temperature, allowing firefighters to make progress, authorities said.

California's rate of coronavirus infections continue to drop

Statewide, California’s infection rate has dropped steadily for weeks and now sits at 3.8% for the last seven days. Hospitalizations total about 3,100, the lowest since mid-June and down 24% in two weeks.

Smoke from wildfires creates eerie baseball scene in California

A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the area Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an eerie darkness all day. The sun was blocked by the smoke.

Dramatic photos: California residents wake up to raining ash and smoke-filled skies

Others around the Bay Area also documented hazy horizons, red suns and gray skies -- all the result of the raging wildfires burning around California, which as of this week had scorched a record-setting 2.3 million acres of earth.