A freight train derailed Friday afternoon near Elk Grove in Sacramento County, sending 22 train cars into the Cosumnes River near Highway 99, according to the Cosumnes Fire Department.

There’s no word yet when the 188,000 people who evacuated their homes near Northern California’s Oroville Dam can return. Mandatory evacuation orders remain in place for Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties Tuesday.

Cheese is delicious. Salad with cheese is also delicious. But Listeria is not. For that reason, Sargento has recalled seven prepackaged cheese products and Taylor Farms has recalled 6,630 pounds of pork and chicken salad products that use the affected cheese.

A two-alarm fire at an Escondido motorcycle dealership may have caused as much as $2.5 million in damage, a fire battalion chief said. It was still unclear Sunday what led to the fire, first reported about 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

Demi Lovato’s new Los Angeles house was rendered unfit for occupancy before she ever moved in. California landslides have been wreaking havoc for homeowners, including certain top celebs.

You might not want to open a rear window if you’re driving a Nissan Altima. The company is recalling more than 341,000 of the midsize cars in the U.S. because the doors might open if a rear window is lowered.

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has released information about a large automotive insurance fraud scheme that reportedly led to a loss of more than a half million dollars.

The owner of a San Rafael home demolished by a massive mudslide Tuesday morning compared witnessing his house get leveled to “watching a weird movie.”

Ten students were injured - one critically - after a school bus and a vehicle crashed in Lancaster, fire officials said on Tuesday. The solo occupant of the vehicle was listed in critical condition.

It’s a topic that gets much buzz — how will the cloud of legislation surrounding recreational and medical marijuana use affect businesses, specifically when it comes to compensability for workers’ compensation?

Two women died and two men were transported in critical condition after a crash on the 101 Freeway Saturday, officials said. The incident occurred just before 8 p.m. on the southbound side of the freeway, north of Highland Avenue and close to Barham Boulevard, after a van breached a barrier near the Barham Boulevard overpass, according to the L.A. Fire Department.

Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower in 2010. “It was supposed to be a wonderful building,” she said in January, sitting in a leather chair in the building’s vast, low-lit, owner’s-club level.

Two men pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Wednesday to conspiring to sink their 57-foot sportfishing charter boat in an insurance scam.

Putting smokeless tobacco in your mouth is one thing, putting smokeless tobacco containing metal fragments in your mouth is another. After receiving several reports of customers finding metal objects in their tobacco cans, tobacco giant Altria is recalling several of its most popular brands.

Putting the injured worker first is key to the “advocacy-based claims model,” which puts the worker at the center of all activity. “It focuses on improving the injured worker’s experience. Until now, most employers have focused on corporate outcomes.