Santa Barbara is often referred to as the “American Riviera” with its Mediterranean climate and architecture, creating a spiritual connection to Italy’s Amalfi Coast. To the south, San Diego’s ...

A Powerball ticket sold in California fell just one number short of winning the $1.43 billion jackpot, lottery officials said. Instead, the lucky ticket won $2,323,527. The ticket matched five winning ...

More than 140,000 other Fantasy 5 tickets sold in California also won prizes ranging from free plays to nearly $450, the lottery said.

Nine people were rescued from a house on the bank of the South Yuba River at Donner Summit Sunday after heavy rains led the stream to swell, cutting them off from the road, emergency officials said.

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in the Saturday, Dec. 21, swarm ranged ...

Two worn reports that survived tossing by the city show it knew there were faults in the sewer line near groundwater contamination ...

Fearful of sharing sensitive information, CA farmworkers are staying away from mobile medical clinics. ‘There’s a lot of distrust.’ ...

A camera caught two visitors pelting an elephant seal with rocks at Point Reyes National Seashore, the National Park Service said. A livestream video showed two people hurling rocks toward an elephant ...