Lewis Randy Williamson found the girl’s body off of Highway 243. Esther Gonzalez, 17 at the time, had been raped, killed and dumped in a snowbank on the side of [...]

Attorneys working for Danny Masterson contacted jurors from the actor’s rape trial despite a judge’s order meant to limit publicly available information about their identities, drawing alarm from the jurors [...]

One Los Angeles County senior has died amid a national recall on carrots found to be contaminated with E. coli.Two additional local cases are under investigation, according to the Los [...]

Two people were critically injured Sunday after a single-engine plane crashed near the track at the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, where fans were gathered for the finals of a championship [...]

An Orange County firefighter who suffered spinal cord injuries in a September freeway rollover was released from a Colorado rehabilitation facility Friday.Firefighter Andrew Brown, who had feared being permanently paralyzed [...]

In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered [...]

For a rare, if not lucky, few days a year, Yosemite National Park’s famed El Capitan granite cliff converts into what looks like an active volcano jutting 3,000 feet above [...]

WASHINGTON —  Theodore B. Olson, the conservative attorney who helped win the right to gay marriage in California, died Wednesday at age 84.Olson was a good-spirited and gracious advocate who won [...]

As firefighters increase containment against Ventura County’s devastating Mountain fire, new access to burned areas has revealed even more damage from the blaze that exploded last week during an exceptional [...]

A man who oversaw a scheme to launder millions of dollars of narcotics money from the U.S. to drug organizations was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, according to [...]

Firefighters continued making progress Sunday against the destructive Mountain fire in Ventura County. The blaze, which has burned more than 20,000 acres and destroyed 134 structures, was about 26% contained [...]

Berkeley Police have arrested a 45-year-old San Francisco man in connection with a recent series of shooting incidents near the campus of UC Berkeley, officials said.Jeffrey Darren Hue, was arrested [...]

He kept thousands of text messages. He took photos of bribe money. He recorded his boss, then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar, demanding that money in a City Hall bathroom.George [...]

Two people were shot and killed after they were approached by a group of assailants in Mount Washington early Thursday, police said. Los Angeles police officers were called to the [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political starpower dimmed as Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic party in the months before the 2024 election.Fewer reporters tracked the California [...]

A Canadian citizen pleaded guilty to voting illegally in 2016 in Orange County, Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in a release Monday.Robert Soutar, 76, of Fullerton, is a legal permanent [...]

Law enforcement officials in California and across the country are preparing for threats against election workers, violence at polling places and voter intimidation amid skepticism from Republicans about the integrity [...]

The clocks rolled back and the winds rolled in early Sunday, bringing gusty conditions to large swaths of Southern California on the first day of Daylight Standard Time.Strong winds from [...]

With election day right around the corner, Los Angeles County officials opened hundreds of additional vote centers Saturday where voters can go to cast early ballots in person.The Los Angeles [...]

A Fontana preschool that implemented an English-only policy for its employees agreed to a $200,000 settlement with California after a teacher’s aide claimed management retaliated against her for speaking Spanish. [...]

It was more than 60 years ago this month that the Dodgers beat the Chicago White Sox and won their first World Series in front of more than 90,000 baseball [...]

Erik and Lyle Menendez will get a new day in court Dec. 11, when Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence them in their [...]

They arrived in construction vests and surgical masks, armed with signal jammers, sledgehammers and blowtorches. The bank heist crew, made up of mainly Chilean nationals, hit multiple banks across California, [...]

As local government careens from one corruption scandal to the next, the city and county of Los Angeles each charged forward this election season with ballot measures to try to [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposal Sunday to more than double the annual amount of money allocated to California’s film and TV tax credit program as Hollywood struggles to compete [...]

Just from what they’ve experienced over the years, California residents may suspect that wildfires have gotten more extreme amid a warmer and more drought-prone climate.A new paper in the journal [...]

Simone Biles is the world’s most decorated gymnast, with 11 Olympic medals and 30 world championship medals.She has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and countless other accolades through the [...]

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life sentences for killing their parents, a move that could [...]

When Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged last month in a federal sex-trafficking probe, it unleashed a wave of lawsuits detailing how the music industry mogul allegedly drugged and assaulted men [...]

A man has been arrested in connection with an incident of punching and sending a beloved valet in West Hollywood to the hospital last month, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives [...]

The candidate running to unseat Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León faced sharp criticism on Monday for saying “F— the police” at a recent meet-and-greet with college students. Ysabel [...]

After a dangerous stretch of dry gusting winds, weather conditions improved Sunday morning — aiding firefighters as they battle blazes up and down the state, authorities said.With high wind warnings [...]

A California man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for abusing foster children he had assigned to care for in his home, including some who had been previously [...]

A Riverside man was arrested after the body of his roommate was found buried in a makeshift grave in a backyard, police said. Officers responded Tuesday evening to the 8700 [...]

A federal judge has struck down the latest Bureau of Land Management plan to manage off-roading routes in the Mojave Desert, saying it didn’t provide adequate protections for the dwindling [...]

DETROIT —  Vice President Kamala Harris, who is registered to vote in California, said Wednesday that she still needs to take a look at Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime measure on California’s [...]

Francesca Eastwood, the daughter of screen legend Clint Eastwood, was arrested in Beverly Hills over the weekend on suspicion of felony domestic violence.The “Old” and “Twin Peaks” actor was arrested [...]

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing six new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse, including accusations that he molested a 16-year-old boy at a party in 1998.The lawsuits filed in New [...]

A man was arrested Saturday outside former President Trump’s rally in Riverside County on suspicion of illegal possession of a shotgun, handgun and high-capacity magazine, sheriff’s officials said.Vem Miller, 49, [...]

If you spend much time in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, you will notice, amid the clamor of buses and trucks and car horns and vendors hawking their goods, [...]

The couple arrived at the Chase Bank in Palmdale as planned. It was early February and they were there to withdraw $200,000. Nearby, a private security guard stood watch, occasionally [...]

Five people are dead after a twin-engine plane crashed on Catalina Island on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.Just after 8 p.m., deputies at the sheriff’s Avalon [...]

Gina Ferazzi grew up in the small New England town of Longmeadow, Mass. She has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a [...]

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear appeals from ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, which were asking to block California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens [...]

In the waning minutes of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz hit on a question that has become central to the 2024 presidential race — and to America’s [...]

A Long Beach man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after authorities say he took a runaway underage girl he met online across the state border from Arizona and [...]

Every weekday morning, drivers arrive at the Little Tokyo Towers at 10 a.m. carrying precious cargo: seniors’ meals individually wrapped in tinfoil. Not too salty, not too sweet, each bento [...]

Schiff says fixing the asylum process long term, in a way that addresses public safety and also keeps migrants safe, will require comprehensive immigration reform. That, he said, will mean [...]

When Nora Bruhn bought admission to the Lightning in a Bottle arts and music festival on the shores of Kern County’s Buena Vista Lake earlier this spring, her ticket never [...]

Eureka, Humboldt CountyThe major city on California’s north coast, with a population of about 30,000Climate: 0 annual days above 100 degrees expected, 2035-2064 (1st percentile of 367 cities)Health and wellness: [...]