Nation Apr 30 Trial begins for 2016 Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36 Derick Almena and Max Harris have been in jail since they were charged with involuntary manslaughter in June 2017, six months after people at an electronic music show struggled to escape the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland.
Nation Mar 29 California town destroyed by wildfire issues 1st rebuild permits The town of Paradise was 90 percent destroyed by the Nov. 8 fire that killed 85 people.
World Dec 20 Yemeni mom overcame travel ban to hold her dying son in U.S. After a more than year-long legal battle with the Trump administration for a travel ban waiver, Shaima Swileh arrived Wednesday night to say goodbye to her 2-year-old son Abdullah.
Nation Nov 10 Death toll in California fire climbs to 23 as search goes on Authorities called in a mobile DNA lab and anthropologists to help identify the dead as the search went on Sunday for victims of the most destructive wildfire in California history.
Nation Nov 10 Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day And on Saturday, President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from California, claiming that its forest management is, "so poor."…
Nation Sep 06 Terrified motorists flee as trees burst into flames along California interstate Truckers abandoned big-rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of a major California interstate near the Oregon border that authorities were desperately trying to reopen.
Nation Aug 11 Jury awards $289 million to man who blames Roundup for cancer Dewayne Johnson, 46, alleges that heavy contact with the herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Nation Aug 04 Weather to bring renewed fire danger to Northern California rews battling deadly Northern California wildfires braced for a weekend of windy, hot weather that could drive the flames into new areas and threaten more homes.
Nation Jun 06 California voters recall judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months for sex assault The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in jail instead of a…
Nation Jan 05 Immigrant acquitted of San Francisco killing is sentenced for gun charge A Mexican man acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a San Francisco woman that sparked a national immigration debate was sentenced to time served for illegal gun possession Friday.