This year 1.2 million girls and boys were victims of child trafficking. That means they were taken from their families. Sold into slavery. Forced to work 7 days a week with dangerous equipment. They endured beatings, malnutrition, and other forms of abuse

The restoration program was part of an ongoing effort by Oakland-based nonprofit Save the Bay and Marin County Department of Parks and Open Space to improve the wetland habitat.

In the 49 years she's lived in Woodacre, just a few feet from a branch of Lagunitas Creek, Marylu Giddings has seen hundreds of endangered coho salmon - and dozens of plans and projects to protect them.

A pro-marijuana group launched a television advertisement Wednesday in California advocating legalization and taxation of the drug to help solve the state's budget woes.

Medical marijuana patients and growers can sue police for illegally raiding their property and destroying their plants, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday

Hopes are rising on both sides that President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow next week will produce a breakthrough in talks on cutting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons and on helping Washington in Afghanistan.

While a young dog attempted to cross Interstate 80 during the morning rush hour, it became scared and stopped in the center of the freeway between the two cement jersey walls that separate east and west-bound traffic,

Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.

President Barack Obama, fresh from his first legislative victory on climate policy, expressed confidence on Monday that new greenhouse gas emission limits would become law with help from the U.S. Senate.