Breaking News from Truckee CA

MODESTO — Three men rescued a driver from a canal on East Briggsmoore Avenue, west of Roselle Avenue, Thursday morning. The Modesto Police Department said the driver had a medical emergency, causing them to drive into the canal.

8:18 a.m. — A caller from the 300 block of Railroad Avenue reported someone behind the business, possibly casing the place. The subject got very irate when approached by staff.

PARADISE, Calif. — The drinking water in Paradise, California, where 85 people died in the worst wildfire in state history, is contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical benzene, water officials said.

Bob Gray, who brought the defunct Virginia & Truckee Railroad back to life and spent 40-plus years restoring it, died April 3 in Orinda, Calif. Gray’s love affair with the historic railroad began in June 1938 when he was one of 226 riders on the railroad’s farewell trip to Virginia City. He purchase

An Amber Alert was issued Thursday for a California teenager after investigators learned she was last seen with her mother and a man who are suspects in a murder and considered "armed and dangerous."

By Stefan Becket, Kathryn Watson, Will Rahn, Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Grace Segers. The Justice Department posted the Mueller report online shortly after 11 a.m. You can read it in full here. Find highlights below as CBS News sifts through the two-volume, 448-page document.

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A video of a bear cub approaching a group of snowboarders in Truckee has gone viral. However, that innocent meeting, could cost the cub it’s life.

Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. Trump was largely thwarte

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Authorities say a call about a pregnant 13-year-old girl being held at gunpoint by her father in a Lake Tahoe shoreline estate turned out to be a hoax telephoned through a crisis hotline.

A man accused in what authorities called an unintentional shooting has pleaded guilty with the agreement he’ll receive a six-year prison sentence, a Nevada County prosecutor said.

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The California Franchise Tax Board says a technical glitch error resulted in thousands of possibly incorrect refunds. As the FTB worked to review those more than 23,000 returns some local tax preparers said they had no idea about this error. They are bracing for calls from clien

More than four decades after two women along California's central coast were raped and murdered, officials revealed Wednesday that DNA from an old razor has linked the cold case killings to a man who died of cancer while in prison.

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Major League Soccer just made two big announcements. The league has invited Sacramento and Saint Louis to make formal presentations to the MLS Expansion Committee regarding their bids.

Anyone who has visited a theme park in California recently knows how expensive it can be to go for a single day, with the cost of admission, parking and food potentially adding up to hundreds of dollars for a family of four.

Carmen Araceli Alvarado-Rodriguez (left) and AnnaMaria Olivas (right) have been missing since April 16. They were last seen at about 7:15 a.m. near Traner Middle School. (Photo: Reno Police Department)

MEADOWVIEW -- Two teenagers were injured in a hit-and-run crash in Meadowview Wednesday night, according to police. Around 8:30 p.m., Vance Chandler with the Sacramento Police Department reports two female teenagers were hit by a vehicle on John Still Drive in the area of Manorside Drive and Hemford

California has experienced 10 times more earthquakes than previously known, according to groundbreaking new research that has helped scientists better understand the region’s seismology.

RENO, NV (KOLO) - A man has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and possession of methamphetamine after an incident in north Reno Wednesday afternoon. Police say the man, whose name has not been released, used his pickup to try to run over the victim in front of a home on Colombard Way. T

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Even before three dead whales showed up in the Bay Area this week, whale watching organizers knew something was wrong during a recent trip to Baja California, Mexico.

MODESTO, Calif. (KCRA) — Three men in Modesto helped get a driver out of a vehicle after it fell into a canal, the Modesto Police Department said Thursday. The vehicle went into the canal on East Briggsmore Avenue, west of Roselle Avenue, after the driver had a medical emergency, police said.