Northern California

SAN FRANCISCO—A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about ...

Two of California’s top district attorneys bumped heads Jan. 27 over whether tough-on-crime policy reduces crime during a ...

BERKELEY, Calif.—Longtime University of California women's swimming coach Teri McKeever was fired Tuesday following an investigation into alleged ...

Authorities arrested 368 people and rescued 131 victims involved in human trafficking in a weeklong statewide multi-agency task ...

Snowpack levels in California continue to increase, after reaching their highest level in 40 years, after weeks of ...

Rampant crime and corruption. A deadly drug crisis. Unprecedented homelessness. Grossly overwhelmed and underfunded police departments. If that ...

California Democrats will try again this year to strengthen concealed carry laws following a string of shootings in ...

The San Francisco Sheriff's Office recently approved a concealed carry weapon (CCW) permit application, which allows individuals to ...

Commentary When I came to California in 1987, one of the delightful discoveries was In-N-Out Burger. My new ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in northern California, seriously injuring ...

California children are still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic both academically and mentally, according to a ...

University of California (UC) officials warned graduate departments they may need to cut back on admissions in the ...

Commentary Like everyone else, I’m horrified at the recent spate of massacres using guns in California. My hopes ...

Commentary After college, I taught fourth grade in my childhood public school district. I learned much from the ...

Commentary It’s getting more dangerous to make money and create jobs in California. Under Assembly Bill 259, by ...

As the ocean breeze passes through tidy streets, groups of the well-dressed wait for a tram to take ...

San Francisco and Los Angeles were the two top cities people were looking to leave at the end ...

A California Assemblyman has proposed legislation to allow children who have filed petitions to change their legal names ...

Commentary Since Dec. 26, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom has taken no ownership for the $1 billion in ...

A Tesla Model S burst into flames on Saturday afternoon in California while driving on Highway 50, causing ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A farmworker charged with killing seven people at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms reportedly told investigators ...

California is poised to change the way it counts COVID-19 deaths based on a new algorithm that is ...

MONTARA, Calif.—The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet (76 meters) off a treacherous cliff in northern ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of community members gathered in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on the evening of Jan. 26 ...

WASHINGTON—The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails, or juvenile detention centers ...

Commentary Some things new laws just can’t fix. You first must change the old laws. That’s turning out ...

California's controversial COVID-19 misinformation law, which bars doctors from providing “misinformation” or “disinformation” related to COVID-19, is an ...