Robin Williams’ children and wife have gone to court in a bitter fight over the late comedian’s estate.

California is assessing the damage after a powerful earthquake struck the heart of the US state’s wine country, catching many people sound asleep.

A large earthquake rolled through California’s northern Bay Area yesterday, damaging some buildings, knocking out power to thousands and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 has been reported in northern California’s San Francisco Bay area, officials said.

PINOT Noir is one of the great misunderstood grapes but one you will be seeing a lot more of in the coming years if Chile has its way.

Macroom boxer Christina Desmond has targeted qualification for the 2016 Olympics following her first foray into the international scene.

A Footsie-style “happiness index” that measures the mood of the world on any given day can now be accessed by anyone online.

SUNWAY River Cruise has just launched a number of winter specials, including a Christmas Wonderland Cruise.

The former suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing left jail after a US judge dismissed child pornography charges against him.

Northern California residents were braced for a second storm to hit the region tonight, a day after the first sent rivers flooding into cities and mud sliding into homes and on highways.

A 9,300-acre wildfire burned out of control in central California’s wine country today, as another blaze in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada destroyed 11 homes.

Catholic opponents of same-sex marriage held a prayer march, criticising San Francisco city officials who have licensed thousands of weddings for gay couples and calling for a federal amendment banning the unions.

Six years after they identified Sudden Oak Death syndrome, scientists are still struggling to understand the disease that’s killing thousands of trees in California.