California power company PG&E has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in civil settlements to avoid prosecution. The utility was found responsible for two major wildfires in recent years.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to KQED reporters Sukey Lewis and Sandhya Dirks about the second episode of the podcast, On Our Watch, which explores how police departments handle on-duty sexual misconduct.

A large and fatal wildfire in Northern California is growing. Thousands of people have fled the Carr Fire so far.

A Mexican man who entered the U.S. illegally was found not guilty of murder. President Trump and others had cited the case as they called for a crackdown on illegal immigration and sanctuary cities.

Republican senators are huddling to work through a number of complicated issues in the tax bill. Plus we look at Rex Tillerson's future at the State Department.

A San Francisco jury has found an undocumented immigrant not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the shooting death of a young woman on the city's waterfront.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with KQED's Alex Emslie about closing arguments in the trial of an undocumented immigrant charged in the death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco. Her death reignited an angry debate over so-called sanctuary city policies.

Oakland, Calif., has a new police chief. It follows a difficult period this summer when the city burned through three chiefs in a matter of days.

In Oakland, Ca., officials are trying determine the cause of a fire that killed 36 people attending a dance party in a warehouse. A litany of governmental and bureaucratic failures is emerging.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigned this week shortly after the fatal shooting of an African-American woman in the city.