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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Padilla to fill the vice president-elect's Senate seat. He'll be the state's first Latino senator.

Maybe you can tell the story of your life through the cars you have known. The Datsun you took your driver's test in, or the Dart where you kissed…

The second-term state treasurer is searching for that spark to overtake Tina Kotek, the former Oregon House Speaker who some say is taking up all the oxygen in the Democratic primary race for governor.

The region played a key role in the Underground Railroad. Today, thousands of asylum seekers who came to the U.S. are heading north, too.

This seems like a good time in history to talk about the FBI. It has taken its share of dents and dings of late, but there's a compelling reason for a…

The State of California ratified its constitution in 1879. Its Article One, Section Eight required that each county form and summon a grand jury at least…

In 1965, two young fans heard the jazz giant play at a San Francisco club and had a religious epiphany. Their church is an idiosyncratic and joyful blend of devotion to the divine — and to jazz.

In the early 1900s, the Siskiyou National Forest had more than 70 forest lookout stations on Southwest Oregon mountaintops. Pearsoll Peak is the only one…

"Since yesterday, we have heard no more voices from inside," said a local disaster official. Eight miners have died, and about three dozen more are thought to remain underground.

Parker's breezy new album, which mixes live music with vintage synthesizers, draws on R&B, early hip-hop, droning electronica, jazz-funk, Afropop and flailing '60s-rock solos.