SACRAMENTO — Legislation to decriminalize certain psychedelic drugs such as “magic mushrooms,” MDMA, ketamine and LSD was gutted by the California Legislature on Thursday, though the lawmaker who sponsored the bill vowed [...]
Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according [...]
The Redondo Beach man claimed to be wealthy — in the 1990s, he had invented Zicam, a popular cold remedy — and, he told investors, he had a tempting offer. [...]
Despite the heated objections of neighbors and environmentalists, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously Thursday to approve an agreement with Boeing Co. that seeks to ensure [...]
As if COVID-19, inflation and the economy weren’t enough, the rise in monkeypox cases has given Californians yet another thing to worry about.The disease — characterized by a rash and [...]
One person was killed and three others injured following a fight that escalated into a deadly shooting outside an East Bay gym early Thursday, authorities said.Brentwood Police Department officers responded [...]
The photos were flashed from a sheriff’s deputy’s phone screen to a bartender in Norwalk. They were shown to firefighters at an awards gala at the Hilton Hotel in Universal [...]
A growing brush fire near Gorman on Wednesday evening produced an apparent “fire tornado,” footage captured by a television news helicopter showed.The video, from KTLA-TV Channel 5, shows a swirling [...]
Wilting slightly in the August sun, Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. Tony Cárdenas, Assemblymember Luz Rivas and Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez gathered Wednesday in front of their former [...]
Walgreens helped fuel the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by shipping thousands of “suspicious orders” of prescription drugs to its pharmacies, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. More than 100 million [...]
Authorities in Northern California have arrested a 75-year-old Hawaii man in connection with the rape and killing of a teenager in Sunnyvale nearly 40 years ago, using forensic genealogy to [...]
A flash flood that stranded more than 200 people on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway on Monday in California’s latest bout of heavy summer rainfall is expected to close the [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week urged California lawmakers to harden the state’s climate and energy goals, releasing a five-point legislative plan that promises to intensify the governor’s clash with the [...]
A Los Angeles City Council meeting erupted into chaos on Tuesday, with a public speaker climbing over a bench and charging toward Council President Nury Martinez, prompting police to fill [...]
The private judging industry needs stronger oversight, California’s chief justice said, following a Times report last week on the role for-hire judges played in Los Angeles attorney Tom Girardi’s suspected [...]
The Biden administration will halt the use of a Trump-era policy that forced migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico, after a Supreme Court ruling said the government could unwind [...]
A man accused of a series of shootings, where he fired a BB gun at passing cars on roads and freeways in Southern California last year, was sentenced to 10 [...]
Ryan Fellows, star of the Discovery Channel’s racing show “Street Outlaws: Fastest in America,” was killed in a car crash Sunday, the show confirmed on social media. “The Street Outlaws [...]
PHOENIX — Fifteen women, one man and a baby cooing in a stroller were already lined up outside Camelback Family Planning when it opened on a recent summer morning.By 7:30 a.m., it [...]
Dark smoke that could be seen billowing from a power plant tower in east Long Beach on Sunday night was part of regular maintenance by the Los Angeles Department of [...]
Irvine police have arrested a dermatologist for allegedly poisoning her husband, who they say turned over “video evidence supporting” his suspicion that his wife was to blame for his illness. [...]
More human skeletal remains were found Saturday at a beach on Lake Mead, the fourth set of remains found at the lake where water levels have dramatically receded in recent [...]
A proposal to declare San Clemente an abortion-free city has died after an emotional meeting where dozens of residents spoke on both sides of the issue. The City Council voted [...]
A 29-year-old Los Angeles bank executive was one of three people killed when lightning struck Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., across the street from the White House.Brooks Lambertson, a vice [...]
Photographer John Sirlin was in a canyon in the northeast part of Death Valley National Park late Thursday to shoot lightning in an expected thunderstorm.Then the lightning petered out and [...]
Dr. Mark Morocco was on duty in the emergency room at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center when it happened. He told me the staff was alerted and began preparing for [...]
The flying bullets, economic chaos and violent repression that engulfed El Salvador in the late 1970s pushed many social activists to flee their homeland for the United States. Those experiences [...]
A former police officer in Fresno County faces federal charges after authorities say he sexually assaulted four women while on active duty as a law enforcement officer. A federal grand [...]
Anne Heche, the Emmy-nominated actor known for “Gracie’s Choice” and “Vanished,” has been hospitalized after she crashed her car and caused a home to catch fire in Mar Vista on [...]
A suspect has been identified in the 1992 cold case slaying of an Alameda, Calif., woman, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.Gregory Marc Riviera, 50, who died earlier [...]
A prosecutor who clashed with Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón over a controversial case involving a transgender defendant is now the subject of an internal investigation and also [...]
After a nearly one-month closure, Yosemite National Park’s famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias reopened to the public this week, drawing hundreds of people who came together to celebrate the [...]
After nearly 10 years of serving its famous xiao long bao at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, Din Tai Fung said this week it plans to leave for the [...]
It’s been 60 years since Marilyn Monroe was discovered on Aug. 5, 1962, in her bed in her Brentwood home, her hand draped lifelessly over the phone.The shocking death of [...]
In an effort to address a burgeoning unhoused population and increasing fire risk, the Riverside City Council has approved a ban on camping or sleeping in areas where undeveloped vegetation [...]
Authorities in Napa County are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that sickened 12 people, killing one of them, over the last three weeks. The severe lung infection is caused [...]
A Latina woman says she was racially profiled and violently arrested by Redondo Beach police for having her service dog with her on the pier, even though other people with [...]
When legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully passed away yesterday, I didn’t need to turn on the television, look at social media or hit up sports bars to know [...]
If you’re heading out to Monterey Bay this summer, you’re going to need a bigger boat. Great white sharks are on the rise in the area, and warming waters caused [...]
Two Orange County men were sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for their roles in a cryptocurrency scheme that fraudulently raised $1.9 million, prosecutors said.Jeremy David [...]
A Santa Ana police officer who three years ago was named detective of the year was charged Tuesday with sending sexually graphic messages to a decoy who pretended to be [...]
Los Angeles County voters will decide in November whether to give the Board of Supervisors the power to remove an elected sheriff from office.The proposal, which stems from supervisors’ long-running [...]
Time was that when you went to the beach — 60, 70, 100 and some years ago — the sand wasn’t the only thing that was white. The people on [...]
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency in California over the spread of the monkeypox virus in order to “bolster the state’s vaccination efforts.” “California is working [...]
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Monday that the state has reached a settlement with the federal government to halt new oil and gas leases on public lands in Central [...]
A hit-and-run crash involving a Metro bus left the bus driver and two passengers hospitalized early Monday in Huntington Park, authorities said. The bus was traveling northbound on Pacific Boulevard [...]
The sun was at its peak as the Midnight Mission began lunch service on San Pedro Street in skid row. Sweat dripped down the backs of the unhoused men and [...]
A suspect was arrested Sunday in the stabbing death of a man at the Santa Monica Main Library, police said.The attack occurred Friday around 7:15 p.m. in the library’s north [...]
The McKinney fire is burning through heavy, drought-stressed timber in steep terrain in the Klamath National Forest west of Yreka, said Caroline Quintanilla, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service.It’s [...]
The Hollywood Farmers Market was closed Sunday as Los Angeles police dealt with someone throwing objects from an apartment, where they were possibly barricaded in.There were no immediate reports of [...]