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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Two students have been hospitalized and 10 total sickened following a hazmat situation at a San Jose middle school Wednesday morning, fire officials said.

The San Jose Fire Department is on the scene at Sunrise Middle...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One person is dead and another is injured after a house fire in South Sacramento Wednesday.

According to the Sacramento Fire Department, it was in the 1900-block of Niantic Heavy and it was under heavy fire when firefighters arrived.

One person was found dead...

CHICAGO -- Steve Albini, who produced albums for bands like Nirvana and the Pixies, has died, the studio confirmed Wednesday. He was 61.

Albini founded Electrical Audio in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood.

He was known for his...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits filed after a deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld festival have been settled, including one that was set to go to trial this week,...

(LPMD Architects) 372-unit apartment complex called The Place that consists of three seven-story buildings at 2222 Senter Road in San Jose, concept.

SAN JOSE — A big apartment project that could produce hundreds of residential units in San Jose at a shuttered DMV office is headed into the...

The lawsuit that remains pending was filed by the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, the youngest person killed during the concert.

HOUSTON — Nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits filed after the 2021 Astroworld festival, where 10 people were killed in a crowd surge,...

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The nation's first solar-powered electric truck charging depot just opened, and it's in the Golden State.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The nation's first...

YOLO COUNTY, Calif — A truck fire has closed lanes on northbound Interstate 5 in Yolo County Wednesday.

Caltrans said it's near County Road 13. Crews at the scene have put out the fire and are cleaning up the area.

The estimated time of reopening is 10...

NEW YORK -- Panera Bread is eliminating Charged Lemonade from its menu, the caffeinated beverage that has sparked multiple lawsuits and caused a public relations nightmare for the company.

The Charged Lemonades will come off the menu in the next two weeks,...

MOUNTAIN HOME VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) — Two young siblings died after being swept away by a rapidly flowing creek in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains, authorities said.

The tragedy occurred Tuesday when a mother took her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son to spend the afternoon at Thurman Flat picnic area on Highway 38 near Mill...

(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) After seven drafts, the state approved Los Gatos’s Housing Element, which dictates residential development in town for the next eight years. The North 40 development, seen here under construction in 2020, represents a fierce battle between strong town council control of development; and state laws...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Scott Peterson is back in the news. Peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife Laci and their unborn child. A motion was filed Tuesday to allow special DNA testing of possible evidence in the case.

Efforts were continuing to rescue people stranded by the floods as more rain was forecasted for next week.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The mayor of a major city in southern Brazil on Tuesday pleaded with residents to comply with his water rationing decree, given that some four-fifths of the population is without running...

RICHMOND — A water main break early Wednesday forced authorities to close about a four-block stretch of a major boulevard, fire officials said.

Richmond Fire and East Bay Municipal Utility District officials were at the area of Carlson Boulevard and S. 43rd Street, where the water main break happened, according to fire officials. They were...

RICHMOND, Calif. - The Richmond City Council on Tuesday night passed a resolution urging California to cut ties with PG&E. 

The resolution calls on the state to replace the utility company as California's main power supplier, citing PG&E's contributions to wildfires, shut-offs and rate hikes and reasons for the proposed split.

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By ALEXA ST. JOHN and DOUG GLASS - Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts imprinted with #teachclimate filled a hearing room in the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February. It was a cold and windy day, in contrast to the state's

In a massive and raucous street rally Tuesday during the Los Angeles Board of Education meeting, school union leaders spoke out against expected budget cuts that are already affecting decisions at individual schools, where administrators are making plans that will likely cut employee hours or student programs.

As crowds cheered, angry union leaders lashed out...

The richest bull rider who ever lived still welds his own fence.

"The s--- you gotta do when you retire..." J.B. Mauney says on a recent Wednesday, grinning in a flame-resistant Wrangler shirt.

Mauney, 37, is standing in a pasture at the XV Ranch, the sprawling property he...

SAN FRANCISCO - The family of a popular street performer in San Francisco who was killed by his girlfriend said they were shocked, saddened and frustrated with the criminal justice system.  

Jordan Semplar was killed less than two years ago. 

Yet his girlfriend is scheduled to be released next...

SHAFTER, Calif.  — 

California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Outside of Kern, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire owners of the Wonderful Co., are better known for pomegranates and pistachios. But...