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This year's spawning season for endangered winter-run Chinook salmon is looking like another disaster, placing one of California's most prized native fish in an even more precarious position.

Animal-welfare activists and rescuers often have very high standards. Try to adopt an abandoned dog and you may face a barrage of questions.

In California's capital city, it's in with the old and out with the new. That's not a typo.

He crashed the national anthem.

During the final reverent stanzas of the pregame song Wednesday night, the Staples Center video board showed a reverent Kobe Bryant, and the crowd roared.

He crashed the tipoff.

Moments before the Lakers opened the 2015-16 season against the Minnesota Timberwolves,...

— It was starting to have a familiar feeling for the Clippers, on a much smaller scale.

SEATTLE — When the final whistle blew on the Galaxy's season Wednesday, Bruce Arena ripped a gray-and-blue wool cap off his head and stalked quickly off the field alone.

Staples Center was such a happy place, an unusual concept for Lakers fans who watched two years of sadness, season-ending injuries and overall hopelessness.

Kobe Bryant set an NBA record Tuesday night, playing in his 20th consecutive season with the Lakers, but the team fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves, 112-111, on opening night at Staples Center.

D'Angelo Russell laid out on the eight-foot long Lakers logo in the middle of the locker room, stretching while watching video of a recent Minnesota Timberwolves exhibition game.

In what could become a landmark for African justice, an African Union report on South Sudan’s war has found evidence of gross human rights atrocities and recommended an African court be set up to prosecute those responsible.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Johnny Cueto was too excited to walk, too amped up to jog. As a raucous crowd chanted his name, Cueto skipped and danced to the mound for the ninth inning. He jumped over the foul line and into greatness, and he was taking his team with him.

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Edinson Volquez has flown to his Dominican Republic home to bury his father, but Kansas City Royals Manager Ned Yost said Wednesday that he expects Volquez to rejoin the team this weekend and start Game 5 of the World Series as scheduled.

The House approved a two-year budget deal Wednesday as retiring House Speaker John A. Boehner sought to quell the bitter budget battles that defined his tenure and provide a smoother transition for his likely successor, Rep. Paul D. Ryan.

Michael Bassier was on a roll and proud of it.

He stepped off the bus that had carried him from Georgia to New York, a route dubbed the Iron Pipeline because of its popularity with gun runners, and called an ex-girlfriend to boast.

“You wanna know what I do now?” he said to her in a secretly recorded...

Thirty-six members of Congress from Western states asked President Obama on Wednesday for $16.1 million to complete an earthquake early warning system being developed by scientists in Southern California and along the West Coast.

Scientists from the Rosetta mission have found oxygen in the atmosphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — a discovery that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed. 

Los Angeles lawmakers want to stop letting new medical marijuana shops sign up to pay city taxes because they say there is no way they could be legal under restrictions approved by voters more than two years ago.

The enormous drills that dig subway tunnels don't usually generate much excitement.

Brett Anderson, history maker?

It could happen this off-season, though, as usual in the world of free agency, nothing is guaranteed.

Teams have five days after the World Series ends to make one-year qualifying offers to their players eligible to become free agents. The amount is determined by averaging...

As watchful a superstar as pop has ever known, Madonna paused not long into her concert at the Forum to appraise the recent renovation of the venerable Inglewood arena, which has housed so many of her performances over the decades that “I feel like this is one of my homes,” she said.

Although women have been getting mammograms for decades, the incidence of metastatic breast cancer — the kind that has already spread to another organ by the time it is found — has remained essentially unchanged since 1975. Data from the National Cancer Institute show that the rate of new cases...