Kamala Harris drew a bigger crowd at her presidential campaign launch in Oakland than Barack Obama did when he launched his run for president in Illinois in 2007. At least 20,000 people turned up to hear the California senator outline her plan for w...
Rains that drenched northern California for days were forecast to diminish on Saturday, as teams continue their search for the remains of victims of the deadliest wildfire in state history. The so-called Camp fire all but obliterated the town of Pa...
In northern California, sheriff’s investigators have begun the agonizing task of scouring the wreckage of the most destructive fire in state records, in search of remains of the dead. By Saturday, the death toll in and around the destroyed town of P...
An autopsy has found the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar died from a self-inflicted gunshot. Police say Ian Long, a 28-year-old ex-marine machine-gunner, shot and killed 11 people at the Borderline Bar and Grill in the town...
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A man who was inside the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, captured the moment a gunman fired deadly rounds. Ian David Long killed 12 people on Wednesday night: when police arrived they found him dead at the scene, having appare...
Residents stood in silent shock and grief outside a California bar on Thursday where a former US marine had burst in the night before and shot dead 12 people, including a police officer. But some made their feelings known by carrying signs. “Gun con...
The Ventura county sheriff, Geoff Dean, has confirmed the identity of the gunman who killed 12 people at a southern California bar on Wednesday night. Authorities believe former US marine Ian David Long shot and killed himself after opening fire at...
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In the Sacramento area of northern California, an Amazon fulfilment centre came online last year, striking, it would seem, another blow to the local outlets of Sears, one of America’s signature brick and mortar department stories. The Guardian spoke...
For the first time in many years, Lance Dingman has food in his freezer. Dingman, from Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, lost one of his legs in 1988 as a result of a bone infection and now has a prosthetic; he has also struggled with his mental health....
The San Francisco police department is searching for a man caught on video kicking another person in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. The department released the video, showing a man in a suit attacking a person lying on the ground. Warning: some...
Mark Zuckerberg faces allegations that he developed a “malicious and fraudulent scheme” to exploit vast amounts of private data to earn Facebook billions and force rivals out of business. A company suing Facebook in a California court claims the soc...
The family of Stephon Clark joined hundreds of people at a peaceful rally on Saturday to renew calls for police reform nearly two weeks after the 22-year-old, unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento officers. Clark’s fiancee, Salena Manni, stood...