Martin Linley, a Sonoma County soccer coach, who died earlier this month on a dive trip to the Caribbean, told his wife that if he died he wanted his ashes scattered in the ocean at Goat Rock. He will be remembered Saturday.

Umbrellas dotted the scene at the Santa Rosa Transit mall as light rain continued to fall in Sonoma County. Rain brought traffic backups throughout the morning, including on River Road where a tree fell.

For the first time, a passenger jetliner with a body and wings made of super-hardened plastics took wing Tuesday, a milestone that promises to usher in a new era in aviation.

WASHINGTON -- The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.

After their victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Monday, the 49ers are still alive -- barely -- in the NFL playoff race. They are two games behind Arizona with three games reamining.

Have a few free hours to give? The Salvation Army is looking for volunteer bell-ringers for its distinctive red kettles around Sonoma County.

A Windsor man convicted of drunken driving for a fifth time will serve a year in county jail over the objections of prosecutors who urged a stiffer sentence.

With the state bracing for billions of dollars in budget shortfalls, a group of casinos is offering California leaders a stake in a new pot of money if they allow Internet poker sites to set up business in the state.

NEW YORK -- A wealthy Manhattan hedge fund manager and another executive embroiled in a massive insider trading case were indicted Tuesday on multiple counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.

This is a small-town story about a small-town team where everyone knows everyone, where someone sneezes and the rest of the town reaches for a tissue.

San Francisco, which was at the vanguard of the anti-smoking movement more than a decade ago when it became one of the first American cities to bar people from lighting up in the workplace, now is poised to enact much tougher restrictions on smoking in public...

About 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine for young children were recalled in the United States on Tuesday when the manufacturer discovered that the vaccine wasnt as potent as it should be. Most of the doses - some of which were received in the Bay Area -...

Riverside County authorities have confirmed that charred remains found in a Southern California backyard last month are those of a missing teenager. Coroners officials announced Tuesday that DNA testing confirmed the remains _ which included a severed foot _...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is donating 330 acres overlooking Californias Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland. The Marin County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted the donation Tuesday. It follows Hetfields earlier gift to the county of...

New studies that show CT scans may pose a higher cancer risk than previously thought are especially unnerving to patients like Maria Parker, who has already been diagnosed with cancer. Great. Its just one more thing we have to worry about, said Parker, 38...

A lawsuit accusing a Bay Area flight-planning company of aiding an alleged CIA program of kidnapping and torturing terror suspects threatens national security and is too sensitive to discuss fully in a public courtroom, an Obama administration attorney argued...