A Santa Rosa man was arrested Tuesday afternoon for suspected battery on a peace officer after trying to punch and kick a CHP officer who pulled him over on River Road, the CHP said.

An elderly Covelo woman and her invalid brother were awakened and evacuated by firefighters Wednesday as flames burst from an apartment attached to their home, fire officials said.

An electric car from Santa Rosas Zap Inc. is among nine finalist vehicles competing for a $10 million automotive X Prize for fuel efficiency.

Meritage Homes, the new owner of a vacant subdivision in southeast Santa Rosa, intends to build the same homes as previously planned by former owner Christopherson Homes.

San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson has been fined by major league baseball for wearing orange cleats during Tuesdays 6-4 win over the Florida Marlins.

A San Francisco woman pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter Wednesday in the July 18 deaths of two Cloverdale women whose car she hit while out wine tasting.

About 30 Target employees evacuated their Santa Rosa Avenue store early Wednesday after a forklift operator working near the loading dock struck an iron gas pipe connected to a furnace, fire officials said.

Jeremy Lin, the first Taiwanese-American signed by an NBA team, hopes to overcome the negative stereotype of playing college basketball at Harvard and plans on eventually becoming a minister.

A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizonas immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police and thousands of activists that had been building for months. Coming just hours...

The Justice Department said Wednesday that a judge ruled correctly in blocking the most controversial parts of Arizonas immigration law. States can and do play a role in cooperating with the federal government in its enforcement of the immigration laws, but...

Officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the...

Citing an impending cash crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered furloughs for 156,000 state employees today, a move union leaders called a thinly veiled attempt to pressure their members and the Democratic-led Legislature into accepting his budget...

Jesse Leaman has a doctorate from UC Berkeley in astrophysics, did his postdoctoral work with NASA and is preparing a scientific paper on supernovas while he applies for jobs and grant money to support his research. Hes also paralyzed from the shoulders...