A key player in a Sacramento city utilities corruption scandal has pleaded guilty to paying bribes to city employees.

California is joining the health crusade against artery-clogging trans fats.

The latest foreclosure numbers were released this morning and things are looking grim for some areas throughout the valley. 

Sixty-three percent of Californians say they are worse off than they were a year ago because of the state's economic woes.

Going door to door in Fair Oaks, activists urged people contact lawmakers to solve the budget crisis -- no coincidence the neighborhood was also home to two state legislators.

Contraband cell phones are being confiscated at a higher rate at California State Prison at Solano than at any other prison in the state.

Investigators want to know why a woman disappeared from her Georgetown home -- one month after her husband's equally bizarre disappearance.

Roseville police have released a drawing of a man they say attempted to abduct a woman Tuesday from a parking lot.

California's top Senate Democrat declared Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan to cut state worker pay a "declaration of war" Thursday.

How do you avoid becoming a crime victim? Stockton police say a crime prevention summit this weekend will help residents protect themselves and their neighbors.

They won't be competing, but two doctors from Davis will be taking care of some the world's top athletes in China -- winners of the four-legged variety.

The social worker assigned to the case of a 4-year-old whose mother's boyfriend is accused of beating him to death has been placed on administrative leave.

The Sacramento man accused of beating to death his girlfriend's 4-year-old son is now on suicide watch in the jail.

A Sacramento Regional Transit track maintenance worker was killed Thursday after being struck by an RT light rail train.

California air regulators on Thursday approved the nation's toughest rules to reduce harmful emissions from ocean-going ships headed into the state's ports. 

Firefighters have found dozens more homes destroyed by the wildfires in Butte County. 

The Yolo County Health Department has issued a warning for the discovery of several rabid bats in the Winters area.

Twenty-four days into a new fiscal year without a state budget, Medi-Cal funds were frozen Thursday.

Not everyone dreaming of winning a gold medal is headed to China for the 2008 Olympics. A local group of lifeguards hopes to win honors at the Lifeguard Olympics in Chicago this weekend.

Hakeim Bostic wasn't sure what was wrong with the boy who walked by him on Fruitridge Road last Friday morning -- but something about the boy's odd behavior got his attention.