Del Norte County

A truck that crashed on a remote highway spilled 2,000 gallons of hot asphalt binder in a Northern California forest last week and the driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI, authorities said.

Fans of a popular grove of redwood trees in far Northern California are racing to fund a project that would help protect the area from hordes of visitors.

A Northern California prison inmate died Thursday while fighting a wildfire, authorities said.

California’s population rose to 39.5 million in 2016. The state added more than 300,000 residents last year with the largest increases in big cities, according to a report released Monday by the California Department of Finance.

Doctors felt burned out and some nurses seemed indifferent to inmates’ care at a prison along California’s central coast even after 10 years of federal oversight intended to improve conditions there, the state inspector general reported Tuesday.

Chemical spills happen daily in California. Most are minor, but some cause serious and even deadly results. The NBC Bay Area investigative unit looked into the state of hazardous material readiness in the Bay Area.

Two teens who used fraudulent credit card numbers to rent an expensive sports car were thwarted when the car was reported stolen and they were pulled over by Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies in Roseland on Wednesday, sheriff’s officials said.