An excessive heat watch is in effect today for most of the Bay Area and the National Weather Service is advising residents to prepare for record-setting temperatures that are expected for parts of the region through Friday.

Crews are working on containing about 1,500 gallons of gasoline that has spilled into Suisun Bay.

A former U.S. Marine has agreed to pay $11,000 to a woman who accused him of coercing her into sex at a recruiting station.

Tiburon officials say about 64,000 gallons of partially treated sewage spilled into San Francisco Bay after pumps at a sewage plant stopped working.

The cost of attending a California State University campus is likely to go up again in the fall.

The California Supreme Court says it plans to issue its long-awaited decision on whether to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday.

A federal appeals court has barred logging in the Sierra Nevada forest.

The Sonoma County Sherff's Department says they've arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 70-year-old woman.

Federal officials say mock terrorists defeated security personnel in a recent drill at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons research is conducted.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to use the lottery to help close the state budget deficit.