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The California Supreme Court has acknowledged that Breathalyzer results mean different things for different drivers.

Carl K. Naluai, Jr., the longest-serving cantor in the Sacramento region and a respected figure at Congregation B'nai Israel in Sacramento, has died.

The owner of the Squeeze Inn burger joint says he will move to another location rather than fight a lawsuit based on his building's inability to accommodate disabled people.

Rashard Delrico Mack was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole, plus 25 more years, for his shotgun murder of Jesse Reiter during a robbery two years ago in Sacramento's Valley Hi neighborhood.

Slapping Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Teachers Association launched a statewide television advertising campaign today to fight the governor's proposal to suspend Proposition 98 in solving the state's fiscal mess.

The U.S. attorney's office has indicted more than 40 people in Southern California linked to a ring that allegedly defrauded the Medi-Cal system out of millions of dollars.

After a two-year tryout process, the Music in the Mountains classical music festival has chosen Gregory Vajda as its permanent conductor.

State Department of Motor Vehicle offices will be closed each of the next three Fridays, July 10, 17, and 24, to comply with the governor's furlough order, department officials said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she sees no need for a House resolution in praise of Michael Jackson.

Sacramento developer and builder Kip Skidmore, a founder and former chairman of Greater Sacramento Bancorp, has filed for bankruptcy after running up millions in construction-related debts.

Hercules police are asking any possible witnesses to come forward after what they believe was a street race came to a fatal end.

A minor controversy erupted at the LeBron James Skills Academy on Monday night when two videographers recorded a pickup game in which Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunked on James.

Lisa Ling, the nationally known television broadcaster, will appear at a state Capitol rally tonight for her sister, Laura Ling.

Contract talks between union reps and Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are set to resume as a deadline for reaching a deal approaches.

Even trial lawyers don't oppose a bill that would encourage discounts for furloughed state employees.

LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens reportedly is agreeable to a buyout of the final two years of her contract amid calls for her resignation by key players.

The face of homelessness in the United States is changing to include more families and more people who live in the suburbs and rural communities.

Visitors to the Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The former chancellor at the City College of San Francisco has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and steering public funds to a secret account used in part to buy liquor and pay parking tickets, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The legal groups that have led the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in California are asking to be part of a federal lawsuit against the state's gay marriage ban.

The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigration.