It will soon be illegal for California employers to let workers’ offsite and outside-of-work marijuana use be a factor in hiring or firing decisions, according to a new state law.Gov. [...]
A storm system from Northern California will continue to bring rain to parts of Southern California on Monday, but Los Angeles is likely to remain dry, forecasters said.Showers have been [...]
Rain showers that started Sunday afternoon are bringing welcome moisture to the Mosquito fire, but also an increased risk of mudflows and floods in a heavily forested corner of Northern [...]
SACRAMENTO — California will begin allowing an alternative burial method known as human composting in 2027, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday. Assembly Bill 351 by Assemblymember [...]
L.A. police shot and killed a young man who had called them for help during a dispute with his family, after he brandished a toy rifle from the porch of [...]
They sent out the hard-shell tacos on Thursday at Mitla Café the same way they have for 85 years — freshly fried, with a blizzard of cheddar cheese on top [...]
More than 100 people gathered outside the Azerbaijani Consulate in Los Angeles on Saturday demanding an end to attacks by Azerbaijan forces in a disputed border region with Armenia and [...]
High clouds started to gather in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday afternoon as an early fall storm headed toward the Northern California coast.“By early Sunday morning, most of [...]
Seventeen cats were killed in a large fire that broke out early Saturday morning at a strip mall in Palms with a boarding hotel for pets, according to the Los [...]
A 22-year-old Portuguese triathlete training for an upcoming race off Malibu this week was bitten by an animal believed to be a seal, race organizers said. The athlete, Vasco Vilaca, [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday challenged his Florida counterpart, Ron DeSantis, to a televised debate, escalating his criticism of Republican governors’ mass transport of migrants to liberal bastions as “reprehensible” [...]
A federal judge on Friday signed a temporary restraining order addressing Los Angeles County jail conditions that a civil rights group called “barbaric.”The order signed by U.S. District Judge Dean [...]
The master tenant of the Ghost Ship warehouse, an Oakland artists’ collective where 36 people died in a 2016 fire, could return to prison after allegedly violating the terms of [...]
Los Angeles County’s requirement that riders wear masks aboard public transit or in transportation hubs such as airports could end this month if coronavirus case rates decline further.And the county [...]
Five people were injured Thursday when a car crashed into a Trader Joe’s store in Alameda County, fire officials said.The incident was reported around 5 p.m. at the market in [...]
A former USC dean agreed Thursday to plead guilty to bribery, admitting that she arranged an illicit $100,000 payment for Mark Ridley-Thomas when he was on the Los Angeles County [...]
The Mosquito fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills is California’s largest blaze this year, and it continued to grow Thursday, threatening thousands of homes and the region’s air quality, as [...]
Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you: It’s not easy. And it’s increasingly uncommon to see restaurant workers not only make a career out of their vocations but [...]
Authorities arrested 141 people across Southern California — most of them on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse material — as part of a weeklong operation targeting online abuse, officials [...]
A 5-year-old’s mother and grandmother were arrested in connection with the child’s death days after deputies were called to a Coachella home where the child had stopped breathing last week.The [...]
Up for reelection in a close race, L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva appears to be getting desperate.How else to explain what looks more like a clownish and vindictive political stunt [...]
Mark your calendars. “Coronageddon” is coming this weekend.The Riverside County Transportation Commission announced all eastbound lanes of the 91 Freeway in Corona will be closed from Main Street to just [...]
A 12-year-old student at an Oakland school has been charged in an accidental on-campus shooting that injured another student, police said Tuesday.The incident was reported just before 1:30 p.m. Aug. [...]
A staff member at Vallejo High School in the San Francisco Bay Area was shot while breaking up an on-campus fight Tuesday, police said.Around 3:45 p.m., a fight broke out [...]
Californians should brace for another year of La Niña as the stubborn climate pattern in the tropical Pacific is expected to persist for a third consecutive year, forecasters say.The latest [...]
Raúl Monterroso of San Fernando knows that he can do little to help the struggling garden patio in front of his house. After all, he takes the new water restrictions [...]
Authorities from multiple law enforcement agencies responded to an alleged street takeover in Montebello on Monday night. The Times could not reach a Montebello Police Department representative who was authorized [...]
An investigation into abuse allegations against rock singer Marilyn Manson is still in progress by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Monday in a video [...]
Extreme heat that exhausted California’s overworked electric grid on Labor Day had knocked out one of Twitter’s main data centers in Sacramento, according to a report.While Twitter avoided a shutdown [...]
A flash flood watch is in effect for parts of Southern California on Monday, a day after the region was walloped with heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Kay that led [...]
Los Angeles police fatally shot a man who was reportedly armed with a gun in Westlake early Sunday morning. Around 3:20 a.m., officers were patrolling near the intersection of Sixth [...]
A flash flood warning was issued Sunday evening for San Bernardino County and parts of eastern Los Angeles County, as storms caused heavy rainfall across the region, the National Weather [...]
Arson investigators from the Los Angeles Fire Department are combing through the charred and smoldering remains of Victory Baptist Church on Sunday morning after the neighborhood landmark in South Los [...]
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — Walking the oceanfront footpath toward the fabled fish-packing warehouses of Cannery Row, Randy Sabado stops at a historical mural. As always, he grimaces. It depicts white men [...]
A man was arrested Saturday in the Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion of murdering an 8-year-old girl whose body was discovered at his home in Merced, ending a [...]
A helicopter assisting with operations in the Fairview fire near Hemet crashed while attempting to land at the Banning Airport, fire officials said Saturday afternoon.The helicopter was privately owned, officials [...]
A burglar or burglars broke into the home of Rep. Karen Bass on Friday evening and made off with two firearms, the Los Angeles mayoral candidate said in a statement [...]
Authorities don’t yet have the full picture of Tim Sgrignoli’s final hours in the mountains north of Santa Barbara, but one thing is clear: He was on a mission to [...]
A nurse charged with six counts of murder after her Mercedes-Benz slammed into traffic at a busy Windsor Hills intersection last month accelerated to 130 mph just before the crash, [...]
The El Segundo City Council on Thursday declared a local state of emergency and authorized a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles regarding ongoing issues stemming from a massive [...]
All northbound lanes on the 5 Freeway will be closed for several nights as crews work on opening a third lane and make repairs caused by the Route fire, according [...]
Just about the only thing missing from Southern California’s forecast is snow.As the state comes off a historic September heat wave, Southern California is bracing for Tropical Storm Kay, a [...]
Two people were killed Thursday in a plane crash at Santa Monica Airport, fire officials said.Shortly before 4:30 p.m., a small aircraft crashed on the runway, the Santa Monica Fire [...]
Twenty-six months after an act of arson destroyed the roof and heavily damaged the San Gabriel Mission, the 251-year-old historic venue will temporarily reopen Saturday.Mission clergy and staff allowed guests [...]
Diana Jenkins, a star on Bravo’s hit show “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” filed a lawsuit Thursday against “bots” she claims targeted her co-star’s 14-year-old son with racist messages, [...]
In May, a federal appeals court ruled that California’s ban on semiautomatic rifle sales to adults younger than 21 was unconstitutional. On Wednesday, that same court, the U.S. 9th Circuit [...]
A new research initiative will explore whether the persistence of coronavirus in the body plays a role in the development of long COVID, a poorly understood syndrome in which symptoms [...]
A new brush fire in Madera County has prompted several evacuation orders near North Fork, a small community in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The Fork fire, which broke out shortly [...]
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss murder charges against Hidden Hills socialite Rebecca Grossman, whose vehicle allegedly struck two boys in a crosswalk while [...]
Experts are voicing concerns about the potential for vaccine providers to mix up the Omicron booster vial with those used for conventional vaccines.The concern emerged at a public meeting of [...]