The California Blog

Melinda Melendez, a former schoolteacher who became a respected legislative expert on education policy and a prominent figure at the state Capitol, has died at age 61.

A two-vehicle collision Wednesday in Folsom sent five people, including three children, to the hospi

A two-car collision Wednesday in Folsom sent five people, including three children, to the hospital,

Expectations were high. He took office after a landslide election spurred by economic woes, international turmoil and a discouraged nation's concern that the luster was off the American dream.

More than three years after court-ordered improvements in state prison dental clinics, most remain d

Jabril Debrow's type of kidney cancer is so rare that only 140 cases have been documented, ever.

When David Vasquez told his wife last October he'd gotten a job on a big Sacramento city contract to install water meters, she cried.

The homeless people who walk through the doors of Trinity Cathedral in midtown Sacramento have faith in the church, the only one in the area to offer them a hot meal and a roof over their heads.

The Natomas Unified School District will hold a public forum on closing a school at 6:30 p.m. tonigh

The Placer County coroner has identified the driver of a sport-utility vehicle who died Sunday when