The suspect is accused of feeding his victims with a substance "twice as strong" as pepper spray.

An American man of Vietnamese origin living in California, the US, has passed away after he was infected with the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The Golden State has only had a fraction of the coronavirus deaths experts expected - why?

The governor projects the virus will soon infect more than half of the 40 million people in his state.

As passengers disembark, President Trump proposed tax cuts to help the economy weather the crisis.

A 71-year-old man, who was on a cruise ship last month, dies in a hospital near Sacramento.

 A women's hospital in California used hidden cameras to secretly record approximately 1,800 patients without their consent, according to a lawsuit.

 Preparing for the death of a loved one is difficult no matter the circumstances. But Annalisia Wilharm said she never expected a doctor would deliver the bad news about her grandfather via a video screen on a robot.

 The death toll in wildfires sweeping California has risen to 31, with more than 200 people still unaccounted, officials have said.

 The suspect in a gun attack at YouTube's HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, 

 Two parents have been arrested in California after police found 13 people allegedly being held captive at their home, including some "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks".

 Hundreds of rescuers are combing wreckage in Southern California for those missing after mudslides that have killed 17.

 At least 13 people are dead amid "waist-deep" mudslides in Southern California, where heavy rains triggered flooding, 

 The most destructive wildfire raging in southern California has expanded significantly, scorching an area larger than New York City.

 Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, 

California said it would cooperate with China on clean technology, emissions trading and other "climate-positive" efforts in a bid to fill a gap left after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord

 A pair of $250,000 autonomous buses began driving around an empty San Francisco Bay Area parking lot on Monday, preparing to move onto a local public road in California's first pilot program for a self-driving vehicle

 The eastern United States began digging out on Saturday from a massive storm that dumped heavy snow from Georgia to Massachusetts, knocking out power for thousands of people and causing hundreds of car crashes,

 A portion of a major highway connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas has been reopened, as a wildfire that forced the evacuation of some 80,000 Southern California residents continued to rage virtually unchecked.