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Across Northern California, crews worked Monday to clear streets of toppled trees and branches and to clean gutters clogged by debris carried by rainwater from a massive storm that caused flooding and rock slides, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.

A murder suspect fatally shot by Amtrak police inside Union Station has been identified as a man from California’s Bay Area.

A man has died after he was shot during a confrontation with Amtrak police officers at Chicago’s Union Station during rush hour Tuesday afternoon. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has more.

A massive crackdown on drug trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area has ended with dozens of people being indicted and the seizure of more than a half-ton of methamphetamine, federal authorities announced Thursday. “Operation Burnt Orange” involved four separate investigations over more than 1 1/2 years and numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. With the help of…

The Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma Counties has burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California.

The brownish-orange glow appearing around the Bay Area looks to be a combination of wildfire smoke and ash, some of which is making to the ground.

Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system packing high winds and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes and scores of other fires around the state, putting nearly a quarter-million people under evacuation orders and warnings.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was battling “367 known fires” earlier this week.

Police in the San Francisco Bay Area arrested a man on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing his own grandmother.

A Northern California city official has been ousted after he suggested on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” during the coronavirus pandemic. City council members in Antioch, a city of about 110,000 people 35 miles east of Oakland, voted unanimously Friday night to remove Ken Turnage II from…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out at government stay at home orders as “fascist” in an expletive-laced rant on Tesla’s Q1 2020 earnings call. While answering analysts’ questions about liquidity amid the coronavirus pandemic, Musk called shelter-in-place orders “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.”

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted shutdowns of schools, businesses and events across the U.S. Here are how some states are responding to the outbreak.

A California prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday. Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in Northern California that he...

One person was killed and five others were wounded after a man opened fire aboard a Greyhound bus that was headed from Los Angeles to the Bay Area on the 5 Freeway Monday, authorities said.

If you live in or have visited San Francisco, you’ve probably taken a selfie in front of the Painted Ladies.
Well, now there’s a rare opportunity to own one of them. All you need is about $3 million and a little imagination.

Google is pouring $1 billion into easing the high-priced housing headaches that it and its Silicon Valley peers helped give the San Francisco Bay Area.

Google is pouring $1 billion into easing the high-priced housing headaches that it and its Silicon Valley peers helped give the San Francisco Bay Area.

Towering dinosaurs stand among fanciful mushrooms in the sloping backyard. A life-sized Fred Flintstone welcomes visitors near the front door. And by the driveway on the lawn is a giant “Yabba Dabba Do” sign in orange, purple and red.

South Bay guidance counselors say getting into college will be under close scrutiny this year thanks to the cheating scandal that exposed wealthy families and their alleged paid bribes to get their kids into top schools.