Brendan Weber

Online shoppers, beware. Scammers could be going after your money this holiday season as you try to take advantage of online deals.

A child armed with a rock managed to crack a glass viewing window at the Oakland Zoo’s bear exhibit, but the zoo insists the glass will not break before repairs are made next month.

California on Monday sued the nation’s biggest e-cigarette maker, alleging that Juul Labs deliberately marketed and sold its flavored nicotine products to teenagers.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Phillip C. Mendoza was killed during the Korean War, but his remains never made it home — until now.

As flames started to rip through their communities on the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, people in Northern California’s Butte County picked up what they could and left, fleeing a firestorm with little more than the clothes on their back. “I got a call from my dad saying, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to talk to you again,’”...

If you’re worried that wildfires might have created shortages of Northern California’s 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just imparted it with an undesirable smoky flavor, you can relax. The wine is just fine. For now.

California may be the Golden State, but it seems to be losing some of its shine for some people who are opting to pack up and move to other states.

A quick-thinking BART supervisor jumped into life-saving mode at the Coliseum Station Sunday evening, pulling a man from the tracks a split second before a train was going to hit him.

Apple announced Monday it is committing $2.5 billion toward addressing the housing crisis in California.

Firefighters on Monday continued to battle a destructive wildfire in Northern California’s wine country, trying to beat back flames that forced thousands to flee their homes.

Firefighters continue to battle a destructive wildfire that has leveled 31 homes and charred tens of thousands of acres in Northern California’s wine country, forcing the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.

Dangerous fire weather expected this weekend could trigger another round of PG&E power shutoffs in the Bay Area and across other portions of Northern California.

A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed Wednesday while responding to a call regarding a theft from a private marijuana garden in the rural Sierra Nevada foothills, officials said.

Thirty years ago Thursday, the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the Bay Area, shaking buildings from their foundations, flattening a freeway in Oakland and dislodging a section of the Bay Bridge.

Update: 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: A 3.4 magnitude earthquake rattles the same area north of Walnut Creek where a larger 4.5 magnitude quake was centered Monday and felt across the Bay Area.

A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado.

The second round of PG&E’s planned power shutoffs have begun in the East Bay, South Bay and Santa Cruz and the process will continue through midnight, the utility confirmed.

Kris Sanchez explains what you need to do to prepare for a PG&E power shutoff and what you should do when the lights go out.

PG&E has started to proactively turn off power to roughly 800,000 customers in parts of several Bay Area counties and across much of Northern and Central California due to heightened fire danger.

PG&E could turn off power in parts of several Bay Area counties and across much of Northern, Central and coastal California Wednesday due to elevated fire danger, the utility announced Monday.