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An Air Force F-22A fighter jet crashed Wednesday near Edwards Air Force Base in California, Air Force officials said.

A moderate earthquake has shaken Southern California's Imperial County near the Salton Sea but there are no reports of injuries ...

Early spring is the sweetest time of year to see the California deserts painted in a colorful profusion of wildflowers. Here are five desert valleys that bloom in February, March or April each year.

Children were among the victims of a plane crash that killed as many as 17 people Sunday in Butte, Montana, according to authorities in Oroville, California, where the aircraft stopped for fuel.

Three officers and a suspect are dead and another officer is in grave condition after related shootings, the police said.

Two more of the world's longest surviving octuplets have been discharged from a Southern California hospital.

President Barack Obama announced fresh aid to struggling homeowners in California Thursday, playing a bit of divide-and-conquer by pitting his Republican critics in Washington against GOP governors and mayors eager for the federal money.

California corrections officials have released a new photograph of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now bald with a thick gray beard. The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken Wednesday as part of a routine update of files on inmates at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people, said Seth Unger, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

A verdict has been reached in the penalty phase of the trial of a man convicted of murdering five federal firefighters who were overrun by a wildfire he ignited in Southern California in 2006.

The San Francisco mayor and gubernatorial hopeful gets sidetracked discussing hair gel with Ryan Seacrest, but rebounds with his stance on same-sex marriage: 'Separate is not equal.'

Gavin Newsom may be running for governor of California, but "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest had something else in mind during his Tuesday morning radio chat with the San Francisco mayor: "What is that product that you put in your slick, shiny hair?"