Crescent City (Del Norte, California)

Although Southern California is riddled with geological fault lines, and some are relatively close to both the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear sites, experts said the region was at little risk of experiencing a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are interested in developing an emergency siren warning system along the Southern California coast to warn the public about incoming tsunamis. Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Don Knabe have introduced a motion to ask the...

Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday requested more information about creating an emergency siren system along the coast to warn the public about incoming tsunamis....

President Obama has made federal disaster aid available to California communities that suffered damage in the March tsunami. The tsunami caused an estimated $50 million damage, with the harbors in Santa Cruz and Crescent City being hardest hit. In Santa.....

Pelican Bay State Prison was placed on indefinite lockdown Tuesday after at least two inmates, both convicted of crimes in Los Angeles, allegedly attacked three prison guards with homemade weapons, state corrections officials said. The union...

      TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - At the top of his game, Frank Falco helped oversee one of the Northwest's most successful drug rings - a group that managed to sneak 25 tons of Pakistani hashish into a Southwest Washington harbor aboard a fishing boat, then...

A federal jury on Tuesday found two men guilty of racketeering for ordering a string of killings from behind bars in an effort to make the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang more disciplined and powerful. Robert "Blinky" Griffin, 58, and John "Youngster"...

As a timber faller, Bruno de Solenni labored through the spring and summer in groves of giant redwood, cedar and fir. As a soldier, he died in Afghanistan, and the tree trunks he sawed and milled became his coffin. The Army National Guard captain was...

LOS ANGELES - Pump prices headed toward five-year lows nationally and in California, the Energy Department said Monday. And despite a bump in crude prices, some analysts say the slide might not end until oil hits $25 a barrel and gasoline drops to $1 a...

This list of visitor offices was provided largely by the California Division of Tourism in Sacramento. It was edited for space. More information: (800) 862-2543, http://www.visitcalifornia.com . Amador County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, (800)...

Find out about historic and scenic sites as well as programs, fees and directions to California's national parks, monuments and recreation areas: Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Ft. Mason Center, Building 201, San Francisco 94123;...

Sunnyside A Novel Glen David Gold Alfred A. Knopf: 576 pp., $26.95 Glen David Gold's massive new novel begins with a trick, a coup, the literary equivalent of sleight of hand. For a writer whose first book, "Carter Beats the Devil" (2001), concerned...