Sundays fatal accident in Geyserville has wineries renewing their commitment to encouraging the safe behavior of guests. However, a concern that the area is full in drivers who have overindulged doesnt fit the experience of officers who patrol the roads.

Even in a tough economy, increasing profits can be easy: Just cut costs enough and the bottom line keeps improving. But companies can only do that for so long. Now Wall Street wants evidence that theyre actually pulling in more money.

Andres Torres hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the ninth inning, rallying the San Francisco Giants to a 7-5 victory over the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers

Billionaire Jess Jacksons bid to rename one of Sonoma Countys highest mountains is primarily for commercial reasons, opponents of the name change said Wednesday.

A research firm reports mortgage default notices in California are at their lowest levels in three years after a fifth-straight quarterly decline.

A California utility that had an agreement to buy electricity from a wind farm proposed for northern Montana is now offering to invest in the project.

Oakland police released surveillance-camera photos today of a man and a woman suspected of robbing $17 from a Google Inc. job candidate from Virginia before shooting him to death. Police say the grainy photos, taken from a video camera outside a nearby office...

A Concord stay-at-home mom who stabbed her only child in the chest before stabbing herself to death was identified today as 38-year-old Xuan Liu. Lius 10-year-old daughter called 911 at about 7:40 a.m. Tuesday and said her mother had attacked her in their...

Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a state appellate justice with a reputation as a moderate Republican, was nominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today to succeed the retiring Ronald George as Californias chief justice. A Filipina, she would be the second woman and the...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he has apologized to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod and offered her a unique new position at the agency. Sherrod, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she was considering it. They did make an...

A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill. Work on the relief well _ now just days from completion _ was...