Three years after pleading guilty to selling confidential product information to suppliers, a former Apple executive was sentenced last week to a one-year prison term and a $4.5 million fine. Paul Devine, who was a supply manager at Apple from 2005 through 2010, had been accused of taking money for confidential information.
Californians shopping for Christmas trees may not see the quality they have in past years because of the severe drought the west has been experiencing.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of a pivotal day in the Free Speech Movement, students at UC Berkeley plan to protest an upcoming spike in their tuition.
On Monday, a Los Angeles man was sentenced Monday for posting topless photos of his ex-girlfriend online, making him the first person to be convicted under California's new revenge porn law.
Emboldened by President Barack Obama's recent executive order to spare some immigrants from deportation, Democrats, immigration groups, and health care advocates in California are pushing for expanding immigrant health care coverage.
A tour bus in northern California that already crashed once Sunday drifted off a freeway another time, overturning and killing at least one person and injuring 30 others.
The regents committee that controls the University of California system will vote on a proposal to increase tuition at its 10 campuses by as much as 5 percent a year over the next five years.
According to a comprehensive state-by-state report issued by the National Center on Family Homelessness, one in every 30 children living in the United States is homeless. This alarming statistic means a total of 2.5 million children -- an all time high.
Fifteen hikers from a church group who failed to return from a Sunday hike in the Southern California Mountains were found safe by a helicopter search crew Monday morning.
Thousands of prisoners in California could be released due to a voter-approved initiative that reclassifies nonviolent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession as misdemeanors.
California Division of Motor Vehicles is preparing to issue 1.4 million new driver's licenses after Jan. 1 under The Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, a new law that allows undocumented immigrants to get a California driver's license.
The father of a young girl said his daughter was given a bag of methamphetamine when she went trick-or-treating in the San Francisco Bay area on Halloween.
The San Francisco Giants team won the World Series Wednesday, and fans are still marveling at the seventh game that gave them the 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
500-pound meth operation busted in California, linked to Mexican drug cartel California police seized what they call a staggering amount of methamphetamine - almost 500 pounds -- and arrested 22 individuals involved in an operation that links to a Mexican drug cartel.
A woman trapped in the chimney of a two-story Thousand Oaks home was rescued by firefighters early Sunday morning and arrested on suspicion of illegal entry.
We the People Rising, a group based in California, is demanding that Arizona Sen. Ricardo Lara remove a cartoon from his office that implies that current immigration law is racist.
Clowns have been scaring residents in two California towns. Police arrested one teenage prankster after he chased other teenagers while dressed as a clown.
