The union representing many of the 62,000 workers at Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets in southern California issued a required 72-hour notice of its plan to cancel its extended contract, a move that could pave the way for a strike.
Microsoft has confirmed that the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 will be a plug-in free browser.
A fireball that streaked over the Southwestern sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.
There is now a proposal waiting for the Board of Regents of University of California (UC) to vote on in Nov. if their university will take more money from their students or not.
The Arctic sea ice extent fell to 1.67 million square miles, or 4.33 million square kilometers on Sept. 9. That minimum is more than one million square miles below the 1979 to 2000 monthly average extent for September, which experts say is an area larger than Texas and California combined.
NASA has discovered a planet orbiting two stars about 200 light years from Earth, it announced on Thursday. The circumbinary planet is the first of its kind to be found, and it is bound to pique people's interest because of its resemblance to the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies.
OpenFeint founder Jason Citron will leave his own company, and will be replaced by head of Gree International Naoki Aoyagi.
The National Blue Ribbon School award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools based on students' academic excellence or for the schools' progress in closing achievement gaps, especially among disadvantaged and minority students
University of California tuition may increase by up to 16 percent each year for the next four years if the system doesn't get more state funding, according to a long-term budget plan released Wednesday.
More than 30 snail species to be considered for protection under Endangered Species list.
Being overconfident, narcissistic, and even self-deluded can be good for human beings, a new study suggests.
Between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of Asian-Americans living in poverty actually edged down to 12.1 percent from 12.5 percent.
A new study from San Francisco State University finds that rising sea levels and stronger storms caused by global warming may cost the state of California hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tourism and tax revenues as beaches shrink and buildings require additional protection.
A bright dazzling light sweeping across the Southern California skyline on Wednesday night was most probably just a type of meteor known as a fireball, NASA reported.
Prince Harry turns 27 Thursday, but the Royal ginger won't be partying it up too hard. Instead, he'll be working.
There were at least four earthquake with magnitudes of 3.0 or higher on Thursday. Is that something the world needs to worry about?
A brilliant bright light seen bolting across the Southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.
A roof collapsed at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and the United States on Wednesday, piling debris on lines of cars, injuring at least 17 travelers and construction workers and closing lanes to northbound traffic.
Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright light, or lights, streaking across the sky Wednesday night over Arizona and Southern California in what authorities said were likely meteor sightings.
The researchers at Stanford University in California are trying to develop a diagnostic tool that can measure the presence or absence of pain in humans.
Rising seas forecast from climate change will likely wash away some of California's most iconic beaches by century's end, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate, roads and tax revenues, a new study found on Wednesday.
A research team from NASA has created high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath a desert in Northern Kuwait by using radar sounding technology that provides more accurate idea of underground water levels.
