California

How would you like a rat for a roommate? At least 140 rats have been put up for adoption in San Diego after their owner relinquished them to the San Diego Humane Society when her pet rat population got out of control.

The Jimenez family is causing quite a stir in one San Jose neighborhood, but it was a labor of love for a mother who created an elaborate Halloween display for her terminally-ill son.

A woman who was sentenced to prison for driving drunk while live streaming a fatal car crash has been arrested again, police say. 

The 185-mile long Garlock fault, capable of producing a massive seismic event, has moved for the first time on record.

The Coast Guard unloaded nearly 7,000 pounds of illegal narcotics off the coast of San Diego between July and October. 

In a sport dominated by males, and where football players who are females are typically kickers, one San Jose high-school senior made history on the field with a touchdown pass.

A DNA test reunited a California woman with her child who she thought died 30 years ago at birth. 

The western Joshua tree needs protection under the California Endangered Species Act because of threats from climate change and habitat destruction, the Center for Biological Diversity said in a petition Tuesday to the state’s Fish and Game Commission.

Santa Ana police launched an investigation after a 10-year-old girl was found dead on Sunday after apparently taking her own life.

The family of a 10-year-old Santa Ana elementary school student is speaking out after she was found dead by suicide over the weekend. Police are now investigating rumors that she may have been bullied.

The shelter-in-place order has been lifted for the area in Crockett near the NuStar energy facility that caught fire on Tuesday. I-80 has also reopened and the fire has been contained.

A 29-year-old Sylmar woman and her three children who had not been seen in nearly a week and were feared to have been the victims of a kidnapping were found safe on Tuesday when they crossed into the United States from Mexico.

A California man who allegedly broke into someone's home – while dressed in only women's underwear – before fleeing the scene has been taken into custody, investigators said.

A man who showed up at a Northern California police station with a dead body in his car confessed to killing four family members, three of whom were found inside his apartment, police said Tuesday.

A preliminary magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck near Hollister Tuesday afternoon, about 48 miles from Santa Cruz, according to the US Geological Survey. It was downgraded from a magnitude of 4.8.

Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman reported to a federal prison in Northern California Tuesday to begin serving her 14-day sentence for paying to have her daughter's answers corrected on a college-admissions test.

Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour, the country's first African-American female combat pilot joins us on The Nine.

One person has died and two people are unaccounted for after a wildfire spread through Calimesa.  

Strong winds sparked multiple fires in Riverside and San Bernardino counties on Thursday afternoon.