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: [...]

A recent UC Davis study found that as Central Valley residents go about their day, they regularly breathe in pesticides, including one that has been banned in California and another [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California.The new law makes it illegal to raise and breed octopuses [...]

When 12-year-old Yahushua Robinson died while running during a P.E. class in triple-digit temperatures, his mother could not help but feel like the tragedy was preventable. Now, a little more [...]

With its shattered windows and cartoonish graffiti, the mansion on Mulholland Drive sits like a gaping wound in the Hollywood Hills.Broken glass spills out onto the narrow hillside road where [...]

Orange County is girding itself against a potential flood of litigation from victims of the Airport fire, a destructive blaze that was sparked by a public works crew and destroyed [...]

A gunman hijacked a Metro bus and led Los Angeles police on a wild chase that ended with one passenger dead in downtown L.A. early Wednesday, according to police.For more [...]

WASHINGTON —  California House Democrats — seeking to connect former President Trump to the ultra-conservative policy blueprint Project 2025 — will hold a public hearing Tuesday to lay out “its devastating [...]

Faculty across the state have accused the University of California system of carrying out a sweeping campaign to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and protests in violation of state labor law.The Council [...]

Detroit has cars. Chicago has slaughterhouses. New Orleans has jazz. We have orange groves.Had.For a hundred years, the Bothwell family’s orange grove in Tarzana stood at about a hundred acres. [...]

Every hiker in Los Angeles knows that sinking feeling.You stare at the mountains (because that’s what we do when we have a moment) and see a dark column of smoke. [...]

California greenhouse gas emissions dropped about 2.4% in 2022 — an encouraging sign that the state’s carbon footprint is decreasing once again, even as the economy rebounds from the COVID-19 [...]

A Woodland Hills man who terrorized street vendors using violence, racist language and an ax must pay two victims a total of more than $2.8 million.On Wednesday, a jury found [...]

In a bustling hallway on the sixth floor of a downtown courthouse, Alcira Ayala sat on a bench with her husband and daughter, anxiously waiting for her eviction case to [...]

After nearly 20 years in Chinese custody, Orange County pastor David Lin was released over the weekend and has returned to the United States. Lin, 68, had been sentenced to [...]

Power shutoffs have expanded on the Palos Verdes Peninsula amid worsening land movement. After the loss of gas and electricity has thrown parts of Rancho Palos Verdes into turmoil, dozens [...]

Growing up, I realized that children are a product of their environment, so let me tell you a little bit about mine: I grew up in Secaucus, N.J., a town [...]

Federal authorities have arrested an Alameda County man after he allegedly assaulted flight attendants while traveling from Orange County to San Francisco, according to the U.S. Justice Department.Charles Angel Salva, [...]

Little by little, firefighting crews in Southern California are gaining control over three wildfires that have destroyed dozens of buildings, burned more than 100,000 acres and kept countless residents out [...]

Firefighting crews were working to gain the upper hand on several wildfires burning across Southern California Thursday morning, but cautioned that the threat remained for communities in the fires’ path.The [...]

SAN FRANCISCO —  On the 32nd floor of a luxury condo skyscraper with panoramic views of San Francisco Bay, Heidi Sieck popped a bottle of champagne Tuesday evening, played “Freedom” by [...]

With local news struggling to survive, a collective of Los Angeles media executives and philanthropists launched an ambitious nonprofit group Tuesday to bolster L.A. County’s local news ecosystem, support small [...]

Four years after unveiling an ambitious plan to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030, state officials on Monday announced that they are closing in on that [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading east to headline a splashy big-dollar fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in New York before the vice president’s first debate with former President [...]

A 4-year-old girl was fatally mauled this week by a dog in Visalia, authorities said.Officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2300 block of West [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency regulations aimed at reining in the manufacture and sale of illegal hemp products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids such as THC. The new rules would [...]

More than a year after he was caught on camera throwing a woman to the ground during a violent incident in a WinCo parking lot in Lancaster, a Los Angeles [...]

California officials are turning the screws on the city of Beverly Hills, where approval of a new hotel and apartment complex is moving too slowly for state housing bosses and [...]

With COVID remaining at stubbornly high levels in California, some doctors are warning that transmission could again accelerate following the busy Labor Day holiday weekend — potentially prolonging a summer [...]

Every year in Sonoma County, steelhead trout and coho salmon return to spawn in creeks along the Russian River that are fed by groundwater.Environmental advocates have long urged the county [...]

The Rev. Paul Anthony Daniels knows the names and life stories of the people who sleep in their cars near St. Mary, a century-old church in Palms.In the past, homeless [...]

Days after Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid, a video — created with the help of artificial intelligence — went viral.“I ... am your Democrat candidate for president [...]

Last week, Keck Medicine of USC announced the closure of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital obstetric services on Nov. 20. They cited a 40% decline in deliveries over the past decade [...]

Stockton’s McLeod Lake is looking pretty in pink this week.The splash of color is part of a study being conducted by the California Department of Water Resources, which is dumping [...]

UC Berkeley may be best known as the birthplace of the student free speech movement and for its ranking as one of the world’s top public research universities.But as incoming [...]

Albert M. Camarillo is as old school Compton as they come.His father migrated from the Mexican state of Michoacán as a teenager in 1914, when the Hub City was mostly [...]

Every time someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay, create an image or advise them on planning their day, the environment pays a price.A query on the chatbot that uses [...]

When the federal government closed Castle Air Force Base in Merced County in the 1990s, the dilapidated buildings and vast expanse of aging tarmac left behind seemed more like a [...]

An Orange County man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison Friday after admitting he duped three companies out of $3 million for protective gloves that were [...]

A Metro bus carrying several passengers crashed into a pole in Studio City on Friday morning, sending half a dozen people to the hospital, authorities said.Images of the crash showed [...]

A South Los Angeles woman is suing Starbucks for negligence after she claims she was scalded at a drive-through window in Lynwood.Muriel Evans filed a complaint Wednesday with the Los [...]

Pacific Coast Highway at Point Dume in Malibu was closed Wednesday morning during a standoff between Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and a person barricaded in a vehicle.Deputies closed the [...]

When Erika Flores applied for an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2014, she wasn’t quite sure if her undergraduate work in environmental science fit at a place known [...]

WASHINGTON —  Democrats are flipping the script on border security, with political ads for races across the country highlighting an issue Republicans have repeatedly used as an attack. In key swing [...]

A new poll shows criminal law attorney Nathan Hochman with a sizable lead over Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón in the race for the incumbent’s seat.If the Nov. [...]