Apple CEO Steve Jobs unwrapped a new lineup of iPods, including a new iPod touch with features similar to the iPhone 4, a redesigned iPod shuffle and a multi-touch iPod nano. Jobs also showed a new version of iTunes with social-networking features and a redesigned Apple TV.

Police this morning discovered the decomposed bodies of two missing Vallejo women linked to a Hercules murder suspect who earlier was shot dead by officers in what is emerging as a potential Bay Area-wide string of slayings.

The walnut groves are long gone but the festivities that helped usher in the area walnut harvest decades ago are back. For two weeks in September, Walnut Creek will host three events, all centered around the nut that's part of the city's name.

Walnut Creek's 'One City, One Book' events set to kick off

Some people might have their fair share of vices, but not Clara Beaton. The only thing the 105-year-old Danville resident is guilty of is a love of gardening, sewing and listening to polka.

Police are investigating a Tuesday evening shooting in San Leandro in which a man was killed after answering his door and his mother was shot in the elbow.

Opening day is Sept. 9

Poll finds that growing churches mix contemporary, traditional worship, have active lay leaders

City workers who need to take a short trip on official business can hop on an electric bicycle to do it. 511 Contra Costa, a group which promotes carpooling, cycling and public transportation, bought two electric bicycles for Pleasant Hill workers so they won't have to drive around

SANTA CRUZ -- A man armed with a knife was arrested after he allegedly chased a Santa Cruz couple down west Cliff Drive on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Federal regulators accuse the clothing retailer of denying a job at its Great Mall store to a Muslim woman because she wanted to wear religious head scarf at work.

San Jose firefighters are responding to a 2-alarm fire at a single story home in downtown San Jose.The fire at the single-story home at 160 Fourth Street was reported at 11:50 a.

A man upset with the Discovery Channels environmental programming took several people hostage at gunpoint at the companys headquarters Wednesday while wearing canisters strapped to his body, officials said. Police were negotiating by phone with the gunman,...

The bodies of two women were found in a Vallejo home filled with explosive materials, deepening the mystery into a string of East Bay slayings that culminated in the shooting death of a suspect by California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said today...

The parents of a man who died after a Sonoma County sheriffs deputy stunned him with a Taser has filed a federal lawsuit against the manufacturer of the shock weapon. The complaint comes the same week a Marin County man filed suit against the sheriffs...

The California Supreme Court today declined to accept San Francisco Supervisor Michela Alioto-Piers request to review her legal bid to run for re-election in November - a decision that effectively ends her campaign. The ruling, posted on the courts website,...

President Obama declared an end Tuesday to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, saying it is time to turn the page on that war, and promised to stick to his timeline for drawing down troops in Afghanistan in July. The rare televised Oval Office address, only...