A look at the top California stories from the past week, including a deal between major automakers and air regulators.

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Saturday morning at 2:37 a.m. eight miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The California bullet train authority has received federal permission to handle its own environmental reviews.

A man who killed his friend and business partner at their San Juan Capistrano office and then posed as the dead man through email for months in an attempt to cover up the slaying was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A tearful Jennifer Shin, mother of Edward Shin, who…

A day after police say a 26-year-old man killed four people and wounded two in a shooting rampage across the San Fernando Valley, neighbors, friends, activists, and co-workers remembered the victims, who included three members of the suspect’s own family. Gerry Dean Zaragoza is accused of three separate shootings. Police said he first killed his…

Homicide detectives have arrested a suspect in the murder of a Dana Point man found beaten to death in an Anaheim cul-de-sac last weekend. Police said that Arthur Williams, 34, of Santa Ana, was arrested Wednesday afternoon, July 24, without incident at a local hospital, Anaheim police said Friday, July 26. He was booked into…

Police say Gerry Dean Zaragoza, 26, first shot three members of his family at their home in Canoga Park.

Q. What changes might be in store when obtaining a driver license with the advent of driverless cars? Would the rules change in regard to the knowledge, the physical ability and the vision requirements now in place? The answers are going to be important to people getting on in age: Should they get a new…

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ignited a national debate when she compared the government-run facilities packed with migrant detainees near the U.S.-Mexico border to Nazi concentration camps. But this debate started decades before — in California.

Chris Vaughn, a barber in a red MAGA hat, is fed up: “Their attempt to make people hate Trump is a waste of time,” he says.