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Officials say a powerful magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of northern California, but there were no early signs of a tsunami.

How does classifying most consensual sex as rape help rape victims? As a lawyer who has handled rape and sexual harassment cases, I can't see how.

TIMES PAST 3-9 Images: Edgar Willis Steele in 1883 Jos Maria Villavicencio adobe at the Corral de Piedra Rancho, c.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the minds of Republicans at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists.

In this photo taken Friday March 7, 2014, Eric Henry gases up his car in Sacramento, Calif.

California's greenhouse gas reduction law already has shaken up the state's industrial sector, costing it more than $1.5 billion in pollution permit fees.

A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.

In a year when California Democrats are worried about motivating their voters, Gov. Jerry Brown heard another unwelcome message Saturday: Some Democratic activists are bristling over his administration's policies on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Despite urgent calls for water conservation amid one of California's worst droughts, more than 255,000 homeowners and businesses across the state can still use all the water they want without paying higher bills.

The career criminal whose participation in a notorious murder spurred California's so-called three strikes law has been arrested again.

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

City officials throughout California who are fighting for control over massage parlors, see opportunity in the future as a controversial state law that regulates and protects the businesses is about to go off the books.

Nick and Dawn LaPolla and their children, Alex, 6, left and Cameron, 10, of Fair Oaks, Calif., talk about the impact of the new health care law on their family.

Teenagers who share sexually explicit images of others on the Internet to harass them could soon face tougher punishment under California legislation proposed on Friday, spurred by the suicide of a teen after images of her sexual assault were circulated to other students.

Even in an election year that appears favorable for national Republicans, California Democrats are confident they will retain their iron grip on state leadership and possibly enrich their share of House seats in Washington.

Kashkari, best known as the former U.S. Treasury official who oversaw the bank bailout at the start of the Great Recession, reported the income from Pacific Investment Management Co.

California's unemployment rate continued its downward trend, dropping to 8.1 percent in January, even as the number of nonfarm jobs declined.

Darren Sharper will return to court on Friday where his attorneys will argue that the former NFL All-Pro safety should be released from a Los Angeles jail.

In this Feb. 14, 2014, file photo, former NFL safety Darren Sharper leaves a courthouse in Los Angeles.

A killer whale raises its head out of the water in 2010 during the first show since an orca killed a trainer at the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Fla.