The state budget crunch and workers furloughs mean its harder than ever to book an appointment to take your drivers license road test. The key: Get online immediately after midnight or head out of town.

Michelle Pendleton loves to ring one for The Salvation Armys Red Kettle campaign and has helped enlist and organize dozens of volunteers to do the same.

BlackBerry users in North America faced delays in receiving e-mail on their devices Thursday.

After almost six years of labor organizing, health care workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital begin voting today on whether or not they should be represented by a union.

Tiger Woods has changed a lot of things about golf for the better, say Sonoma County golfing pros, but the impact his current personal problems will have on the PGA Tour, is causing concern throughout the sport.

Mendocino County authorities were still awaiting forensic confirmation Thursday before they released the name of a man found dead inside the charred wreckage of a Fort Bragg home a day earlier.

Santa Rosa Police are planning a DUI checkpoint Saturday night in hopes of keeping holiday revelers off the streets as Christmas nears.

A Senate panel has approved the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to run the nations central bank for another four years.

A tracking firm says the housing market in the San Francisco Bay Area appears to be stabilizing, with fewer foreclosures and more activity in pricier areas than a year ago.

Former top draft pick JaMarcus Russell cant even get the next Raiders start over third-stringer Charlie Frye. Russell has been an unmitigated disaster, and the Raiders need to start over -- if they can.

The 2010 California governors race, already an entertaining reality show, is exhibiting signs of morphing into an expensive, combative new series - Battle of the Super Rich. Republican state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner ensured as much this week...

Republican former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who has spent more than $20 million in her campaign to become Californias next governor, holds commanding leads over her two GOP competitors, while nearly half the partys likely voters are undecided, a new poll shows...

Mayor Gavin Newsom struck a deal Wednesday with the U.S. Navy to transfer Treasure Island to San Francisco for a $55 million guaranteed payment over several years. Additional considerations could make the package worth more than $105 million to the federal...

A state assemblyman is sponsoring legislation that would make it a crime to not report violent attacks, a proposal made in response to the gang rape of a Richmond High School student in October - and reports that 20 witnesses failed to report the assault...

California court leaders, responding to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on judicial conflicts of interest, want to disqualify judges from any case in which they have received at least $1,500 in campaign contributions from either side. The state Judicial Council...

San Franciscos school superintendent has laid down the law when it comes to the use of district-issued credit cards by school board members, issuing an edict that prohibits spending on personal items and limits gratuities to 15 percent. The new policy,...