CA Mortgage Refinance in California

In the Tenderloin, corner stores sell more alcohol than food, drug-addled pan handlers shake paper cups at passers-by and churches vie for real estate with strip clubs.

What is it with Culture of Corruption machine politicians? If they're not in prison, they're under investigation, or they're hanging with shady characters.

After making landfall over mainland Mexico, Norbert weakened Sunday from a hurricane to a tropical storm, weather officials said.

Norbert made landfall over mainland Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with winds near 85 mph early Sunday morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

But those winds have weakened to near 60 mph and Norbert is expected to rapidly weaken to a tropical depression later Sunday morning, the Miami-based center said.

Hurricane warnings for the coast of Mexico have been discontinued, the center said.

The plunging stock market, big bank failures, falling home values and other scary economic news could signal trouble for travel.

One of the largely unasked questions of the election is how the turnout by African Americans in California will affect Proposition 8. Will increased numbers of African American voters who arrive at California ...

County clerks across California are up in arms about the state's recent decision to rush through a change allowing couples to once again mark "bride'' and "groom'' on marriage licenses instead of "Party A" and ...

Californians Against Hate has called off their boycott of Bolthouse Farms. Nearly a month ago, opponents of Proposition 8, led by Caifornians Aganst Hate, started what they called a "soft boycott" of Bolthouse ...

A credit rating agency is expressing concern about California 's ability to borrow $4 billion just days before the state heads out to market.

PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.

An air tanker drops fire retardant on a blaze in Malibu driven by Santa Ana winds in October 2007.

A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to get married, saying legislators did not go far enough when they approved same-sex civil unions that were identical to ...

The 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest that is popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels is also home to some of the most intensely polluted pockets of wilderness in America, according to federal ...

OUR favorite way of looking at the current societal discussion about who has the right to marry whom is the simplest one: If two people love each other, and want to sanctify that love through ceremony and ...

A new study says an outbreak of wildfires in California last year worsened smog pollution in rural areas and caused levels to spike above federal air quality standards.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says private donors have raised $25 million to help the state protect the Sierra Nevada.

ATWATER, Calif. - At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger thought he had sealed one of the most ambitious health care overhauls in the nation's history.

His administration spent months brokering a deal with Republicans, Democrats and divergent interest groups, then watched as it passed the state Assembly with bipartisan support. When the plan went to the Senate, Schwarzenegger thought he had the backing of the Democratic leader, Don Perata.

It wasn't long before the painstakingly assembled plan unraveled and lay dead in committee.

Mormons living outside California have been asked to volunteer for a telephone campaign to help pass a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in the state.

Whales may simply have to pay the price as the Navy prepares for war, Supreme Court justices suggested today.

Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for discovering and developing a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and ...