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The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has rejected a request from Ford and Mazda to avoid recalling about 3 million vehicles with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators

A federal investigation has found hundreds of stolen car fobs are being smuggled across the border where smugglers are reselling them across Imperial and San Diego County.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman who was killed when her parked car was struck by an alleged drunk driver early Monday morning in Santa Rosa as Kellie Nora Michelle, 50, of Santa Rosa.

President Donald Trump spread shoddy information about Syria, the economy and matters at the heart of the impeachment inquiry against him in a week of caustic rhetoric.

Battling an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump is misrepresenting facts as he blasts his investigators and seeks to highlight the administration’s efforts to fulfill campaign pledges on the economy and war in the Middle East . In tweets and public remarks, the president minimized the risk of withdrawing U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, suggesting that most of the...

Drivers allegedly involved in a series of sideshows last weekend in western Contra Costa County may be facing criminal charges now that the California Highway Patrol has filed complaints with the district attorney.

President Donald Trump attributed statements to a Democratic congresswoman that she didn’t make as he set off an incendiary week of vilification with accusations that she and three other lawmakers of color hate America. One of his top White House advisers, Stephen Miller, reinforced the charges Sunday, pointing to their remarks about terrorism and Trump’s handling of border policy and...

 The Japanese auto company has noticed a software issue that can cause the engine to stall.

In launching his reelection campaign, President Donald Trump repeated a claim about new auto plants that he made a year-and-a-half ago. It’s still not true, and it fits a pattern of Trump falsely boasting of unexpected or unusual gains in the auto industry.

The family of the Apple engineer who died in a crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View last year while driving his Tesla has sued the automaker, alleging wrongful death and negligence stemming from false advertising of what they claim is a defective Autopilot driver-assistance system.

A 20-month-old boy survived a six-story fall from suburban Seattle apartment window after the toddler landed on the roof of a parked car that cushioned the impact of the plunge, authorities said. The toddler “landed in a way where the car absorbed enough of the impact that he was awake and crying when paramedics arrived” Wednesday afternoon, Redmond police spokesman...

The San Francisco rideshare passenger killed over the weekend in San Diego when a suspected drunk driver barreled into his car was in town for a wedding, his family says.

A wrong-way driver headed north Sunday night in the southbound lanes of Interstate Highway 280 near the Daly City-San Francisco border was injured and subsequently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the California Highway Patrol.

An overturned vehicle shut down at least two lanes of Highway 101, near Menlo Park, Sunday evening, resulting in injuries and a DUI arrest, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 47-year-old pedestrian died early Saturday morning after being hit by a car on Monterey Road, San Jose police said.

At least two people were killed and a third injured after a solo-vehicle crash on Redwood Road in unincorporated Alameda County near the Upper San Leandro Reservoir on Saturday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.

General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Volkswagen and Mercedes all knew of problems with dangerous exploding Takata air bag inflators years before issuing recalls, according to three class actions filed Wednesday with the federal court in Miami. The lawsuits cite company documents obtained through previous legal actions against other automakers over faulty Takata inflators. The plaintiffs allege that automakers were informed of...

A Fairfield woman thought she was helping a person who was down on her luck and instead ended up with her car stolen.

Read the full text of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, as released by the White House.

Japanese air bag maker Takata is recalling an additional 3.3 million faulty air bag inflators as it expands the largest automotive recall in U.S. history. The latest recalls cover frontal air bags in certain 2009, 2010 and 2013 vehicles made Honda, Toyota, Audi, BMW, Daimler Vans, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Tesla....