Even as quakes, wildfires and drought have taken up most of our focus, the slow-moving disaster of rising seas has paralyzed Californians, and left us with "both too much and not enough time" to act, as environment reporter Rosanna Xia wrote in a special report examining sea level rise and the future of California's disappearing coastline.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to put a hold on President Trump's new rule denying funds to family planning clinics that make referrals for abortion.
San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell stopped at an El Pollo Loco about noon Wednesday for a bite to eat.
An adjunct UCLA professor of electrical engineering faces 219 years in federal prison for conspiring to export semiconductor chips with military applications to China.
Los Angeles County caseworkers allowed 4-year-old Noah Cuatro to remain in his parents' home despite a court order in May — weeks before the Palmdale boy died under what authorities say are suspicious circumstances, according to two sources who have reviewed court documents.
After the gloom and doom of early July — with cloudy skies in many areas and major earthquakes that shook holiday plans — Angelenos can look forward to brighter weather.
An Orange County man who admitted committing a sex crime against a 12-year-old girl he met on the Tinder dating app will spend more than a year behind bars, court records show.
Authorities are trying to determine whether a business in a strip mall where an explosion and fire occurred late Wednesday in Anaheim was an illicit drug lab.
The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's contracting division was concerned: Top DWP executives wanted to give a $30-million, no-bid contract to a new consulting company to fix the utility's billing system.
The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
After six hours of heated testimony from conservationists and off-road vehicle enthusiasts, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the recommendation of its staff and voted against restricting vehicle access to Oceano Dunes — at least for the time being.
A fire that broke out in a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles early Thursday damaged three clothing businesses and triggered a large response from city firefighters.
UCLA Medical Center learned in 2014 that a breast cancer patient had made abuse allegations against gynecologist Dr.
Opal Goode turned 112 in June, about a month before the big earthquakes that still have this town rumbling.
Every day, Caesar Flores, a senior airman in the Air Force, thinks about his mother.
Damage to Earth's crust from the magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes that struck Southern California last week is visible in a kaleidoscopic satellite image released by NASA.
There's a new twist in the California-Trump brawl in the state Legislature.
A 36-year-old Lake County man was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison for his role in illegally growing hundreds of marijuana plants and forcing a runaway teen to work at the farm, sometimes keeping her inside a small metal tool chest.
A group of San Francisco residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block construction of a 200-bed temporary homeless shelter, another instance of the state's environmental laws being used to derail such projects.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported Wednesday afternoon at 5:14 p.m.
Less than a week after twin earthquakes rocked the core of the tiny town of Trona, Calif., Ronnie Tolbert walked out of a community meeting and got straight to work.