Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.

It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

Fire officials in the Central Valley farming community of Reedley evacuated an elementary school after a winery next door to the school caught on fire.

A disgraced former head of an elite Northern California drug task force was sentenced Monday to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing drugs from evidence lockers and trying to sell them.

Community colleges in California could offer additional classes during shorter summer and winter sessions at higher fees under a bill that has passed the state Assembly.

Investor Chris Hansen has congratulated Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson on his efforts to keep the Kings in California, while also vowing to keep up his pursuit of getting the NBA back to Seattle.

The turnaround has taken place. The total transformation might not be far away.

Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise.

Two lawmakers are pushing legislation to strip broad secrecy provisions from the state agency overseeing health care reforms in California that could shield from the public how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent, officials said Monday.

North Carolina assistant Trisha Stafford-Odom is leaving to become head coach at Concordia-Irvine, an NAIA program in California.

Federal authorities say a California man wanted in an Alabama murder case has been arrested near the southern Arizona border.

For all that the San Jose Sharks accomplished with their overtime victory over Los Angeles in Game 3, they know it will mean very little if they don't back that win up with another at home against the defending Stanley Cup champion Kings.

The principal of Bakersfield High School says classes will resume on schedule Tuesday after the school was placed on lockdown and classes were cancelled after three small explosions on the school's campus Monday.

Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years. Her task: Help the Internet pioneer regain its stature after years in a financial funk. In her 10 months leading the company, she has overseen a redesign of Yahoo services and orchestrated several acquisitions, including a deal to buy online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles.