California

​​​​​​​San Francisco 49ers coach Katie Sowers will make history when the team steps on the field at Super Bowl LIV in Miami Gardens, Fla., where they'll take on the Kansas City Chiefs next month.

Yosemite's Horsetail Fall will light up with bright orange and red hues that resemble cascading fire for a few days in February.

An inmate in a central California prison bashed a convicted child molester over the head with a cane last week, inflicting an injury so severe that it later killed him – cutting the man’s life-sentence short, officials said Monday.

A family of three was pulled to safety after falling through an icy lake in Big Bear. 

Alyssa Nakken became the first female coach on a major league staff in baseball history Thursday when she was named an assistant under new Giants manager Gabe Kapler.

Her friends then used Snapchat's location service to figure out that she was that she was at the E-Z 8 Motel at 1550 N. First St. in San Jose and called 911. 

One California community joined forces to help a young child fighting for his life.

“We shared the videos and photos with several of our wildlife biologists, and none of them could recall ever seeing five mountain lions together," said Peter Tira, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop euthanizing animals, as part of his budget proposal, he wants to spend $50 million on saving the lives of adoptable cats and dogs across the state, The Sacramento Bee reported.

There's no crying in baseball, but there could be government action.

New surveillance video was released Monday that captured the moment an off-duty detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department helped an elderly woman cross the street just seconds before she was struck and killed in Valley Village over the weekend. 

Six California Highway Patrol units sped to the scene of what they thought was a possible child abduction Saturday after a driver saw a little girl’s plea for help.

The 92nd Academy Awards will take place Feb. 9 in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theatre.

Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, after a three-year battle with brain cancer.

A mother in California says she was viciously beaten by the girl who had been bullying her 16-year-old daughter, according to various local reports.

A man who witnesses said was clearly on drugs tried to kidnap a little girl from her mother’s arms.

The homeowners said the skunk had been rambling under the house for a few days, before choosing the dryer vent as his exit route.

Newsom wants California, home to nearly 40 million people, to contract with generic drug companies to make prescription medications on its behalf so it could then sell them to the public. The goal, according to the governor's office, is to lower prices by increasing competition in the generic market.

For the second year in a row, next month's Oscar ceremony will be held without a host, the president of ABC Entertainment said Wednesday.

A sea lion who was shot with a pellet gun and found in distress in Newport Beach in December was humanely euthanized due to the extent of its injuries.