A federal judge sentenced disgraced former California Sen. Leland Yee to five years in prison Wednesday morning after the career politician asked the judge for leniency and to take his whole life of service into account.

Prosecutors announced Thursday that they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a rookie Sacramento policewoman in an ambush last year.

Prosecutors announced Thursday that they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a rookie Sacramento policewoman in an ambush last year.

Authorities say a teenage girl fatally hit by a car on a Sacramento freeway was trying to help another teen who had run away from a youth home. California Highway Patrol officials say the accident occurred after a “very distraught” teenage girl left the Sacramento Children’s Receiving Home Wednesday night, The Sacramento Bee reported Thursday. The girl stepped onto the highway...

A U.S. military contractor who was killed in a rocket attack in Iraq last month — an attack that ignited a series of reprisals between the U.S. and Iran that have inflamed tensions in the region — has been buried in Northern California, it was reported Tuesday. Nawres Waleed Hamid died on Dec. 27 at a military base near Iraq’s…

An NBC Bay Area investigation discovered pay outs on 45 different lawsuits filed against the State of California involving 51 CHP officers, 35 of whom were still on the payroll through 2015

The driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a female pedestrian in the vicinity of the Stockton Tunnel in San Francisco’s Chinatown district Saturday morning has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter, according to a police spokesman.

Over the past six years, volunteers working with the South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition have removed 200 tons of trash from South Bay waterways. Garvin Thomas reports in this edition of Bay Area Proud.

Bay Area Rapid Transit board members on Thursday will see a presentation about the future of at least most of the 669 “Legacy” BART passenger cars, the oldest of which are slated for retirement this year.

A paperwork shuffle forces a woman to pay a huge towing bill – more than many peoples’ monthly rent. A state lawmaker says the high price of towing needs to be reined in.

The man accused of fatally stabbing an Oakland man on a BART train was recently released from jail in San Francisco, awaiting trial on weapons charges, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

A good Samaritan was fatally stabbed on a BART train after he allegedly attempted to stop a man from stealing another rider’s shoes.

Former University of San Diego standout has stepped up in the absence of George Kittle

Napa County Superior Court judge sentenced a 20-year-old man in October to 10 years in state prison for sexual exploitation of two 17-year-old high school girls, county prosecutors said Thursday.

RanDee McLain and Isabel Morales Vargas spent years in their military uniforms and once retired they noticed a lack of services for women transitioning from active duty. They decided to start Operation Dress Code, an event that provides business attire, help with Linkedin profiles and even provide hair and make up for veteran women. Learn more on California Live Monday,...

A planned five-day strike by 4,000 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, mental health therapists and other medical professionals, originally to have started Monday, has been postponed in acknowledgement of the death Sunday of Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson.

The man who had a brush with death at the Oakland Coliseum BART station Sunday recounted the incident Wednesday for KCRA-TV in Sacramento.

San Jose may have led the way, but the city’s plan to essentially buy out PG&E and into a customer-owned utility has received a huge boost of support.

Authorities in Northern California say a woman was impaled in the leg over the weekend when a large metal bar fell off a moving big rig on a highway near Sacramento.

Officials say a California prison guard fatally shot an inmate who was attacking another convict.