Nation Oct 09

California's main utility announced is shutting off power to customers in 34 northern, central and coastal California counties to reduce the chance of fierce winds knocking down or toppling trees into power lines during a siege of hot, dry, gusty…

Nation Sep 05

A jury on Thursday acquitted one man of involuntary manslaughter but could not reach a verdict for the leader of an artists' commune accused of turning a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse into a cluttered maze that trapped 36 partygoers…

Nation Jul 05

A widely felt magnitude 5.4 quake before dawn Friday was the strongest aftershock thus far.

Politics Apr 30

Tauscher, who served in Congress for more than a decade before joining the Obama administration, died of complications from pneumonia, her family said Tuesday.

Education Feb 21

Teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday, part of a national wave of discontent by educators over classroom conditions, pay and other issues. Student photographers at Youth Beat, a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab, captured the first day of…

Nation Nov 29

A spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says several vehicles were trapped on a road on the outskirts of Chico.

Nation Aug 03

"I'm waiting to probably break down any minute here. Pretty overwhelming," one woman said as her family stood on the sidewalk staring in disbelief at what's left of their house in the city of Redding.

Nation Jul 24

The hunt for a man police say killed an 18-year-old woman in an unprovoked knife attack in the San Francisco Bay Area ended where it began: In a train station.