SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (UPI) -- Baseball star Barry Bonds was in a San Francisco courtroom Friday where he pleaded innocent to 15 charges stemming from a federal steroids investigation.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (UPI) -- California Supreme Court justices questioned the propriety of allowing doctors to refuse fertility treatments for homosexuals during a hearing on the issue.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27 (UPI) -- The Summit Fire, which has burned 4,270 acres and 36 Santa Cruz Mountain homes in California was coming under containment, officials said.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 24 (UPI) -- Investigators Saturday combed a small area northeast of Santa Cruz, Calif., searching for clues to what started a wildfire that burned 17 homes.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- California residents near the Santa Cruz Mountains were evacuated Thursday as wildfires burned about 1,000 acres and threatened several homes, officials said.

GILROY, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- A California crew of tree-trimmers could face criminal charges for cutting down a palm tree with a barn owl nest in its branches, killing two owlets.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (UPI) -- Service Employees International Union janitors walked off their jobs in Silicon Valley, Calif., striking for better pay, union officials said.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15 (UPI) -- An injured man spent three days trapped in a sport utility vehicle obscured by thick brush 20 feet from a busy California highway.

OAKLAND, Calif., May 15 (UPI) -- Google is one of a number of companies that have invested $115 million in solar energy projects.