Six of the top 10 cities with the highest percentage of Asian residents in the United States are located in the Bay Area, according to a U.S. Census report released Wednesday. Daly City has the second-highest percentage of Asians of any city in the nation. (Honolulu, Hawaii has the highest percentage.) More than 58 percent of the 101,123 people living in Daly City are of Asian descent. Fremont ranks third with ......

Despite this week's wet weather, water content in the Sierra Nevada snow pack is only about 35 percent of the average for this time of year.  This year's snow pack is also roughly 35 percent of normal for April 1, considered the date water levels in California peak. According to the California Department of Water Resources, when the snow pack melts, it provides water for approximately one-third of California's homes, businesses, ......

State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris unveiled the California Homeowner Bill of Rights Wednesday, a series of proposed laws aimed at shielding homeowners from fraudulent and unfair mortgage practices.The bills would prevent banks from dual-tracking — negotiating a loan modification with a homeowner at the same time it conducts a foreclosure process; force lending institutions to maintain a single point of contact for homeowners instead of passing customers from one person or ......

The results of investigations into tactics used by campus police during Occupy protests at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Davis, will not be released until later this month or early next month, missing deadlines set by university officials. The Berkeley report, which was due January 31, will not be issued until at least the end of February or early March, and the Davis report may be ......

Social media giant Twitter has responded to mounting calls for protest over a new policy that will block tweets and user accounts on a country-by-country basis. In a blog update earlier today, the company clarified that the change was meant to promote freedom of expression — not to squash it. "In short, we believe the new, more granular approach to withheld content is a good thing for freedom of expression, transparency, accountability— ......