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A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them ...

Fire crews on Friday had extinguished all but 38 of the more than 2,000 blazes ignited over the past month, allowing most mandatory evacuations to be lifted so residents could return home for the weekend.

California's unemployment rate reached 6.9 percent in June, matching its highest level in nearly five years as job losses spread across the economy, state officials said Friday.

An inmate at Pollock's U.S. Penitentiary died Monday night after he was stabbed with a homemade weapon, prison officials said Wednesday.

Two of California's biggest health insurers agreed Thursday to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the state that they illegally dropped ...

A new poll shows two-thirds of Californians are cutting their gasoline use and reducing other spending because of soaring fuel prices.

Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census.

California must drastically change the way it funnels drinking water to two-thirds of state residents by building a canal around the delta, according to a report released Thursday.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear a challenge to a vote that could ban same-sex marriages in the state.

President George W. Bush will head to Northern California on Thursday, where he will get a firsthand look at the wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land since last month.

A sixth body was pulled from a rural, central California canal Wednesday after a collision between a septic truck and a sport utility vehicle carrying farm workers from a peach orchard.

Firefighters set more controlled burns Wednesday to block a wildfire that already has blackened 190 square miles and destroyed 27 homes on the central California coast.

Sylvester Stallone wants to star in a Bollywood film with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The California Supreme Court is considering whether to hear arguments on a petition by gay rights advocates to keep an initiative that would again ban same-sex marriage off the November ballot.

Bulldozers worked Tuesday to reopen roads and clear tons of mud left by flash floods after thunderstorms unleashed downpours on mountain slopes burned bare by California wildfires.

Submitted by knews on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 19:56. An initiative to extend California's low-interest home loan program to recent war veterans is the 12th measure to qualify for California's November ballot.

The state parole board on Tuesday denied a request for compassionate release to Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago and is dying of brain cancer.

Divers are searching for the bodies of at least eight people who plunged into a fast-moving canal after a crash involving a vehicle transporting farmworkers in rural central California.

More heavy rain was forecast today in Southern California, where crews were still clearing debris from weekend flooding and a mudslide that damaged more than 50 homes and blocked a highway.

In the United States, the forest fires raging through California have so far destroyed 34,000 square kilometres of scrubland and forest.