Summer is when our convenient belief that we don't live among snakes, our false sense of security, tends to be shaken. So share with us your most memorable experiences with snakes in California.
The Newport Beach businessman who vanished while awaiting trial in the death of his wife is in custody after eluding authorities for about four years.
This year, Oregon lawmakers passed a cap on rents and ended single-family-only zoning in many communities. Why they succeeded when California did not.
A 15-year-old could face felony charges after police say he tricked teachers into revealing their computer logins and then changed his and others' grades.
Amanda Custer has been missing since July 29, when a witness reported seeing her body being loaded into a car outside a home in Monrovia.
As summer vacation comes to a close, here are the worst highways in California and across the West.
Of the estimated 650 homes that burned inside Malibu city limits, just 113 replacement plans have been approved, and only 12 have received permits to start construction, records show.
Three years after the Legislature banned taxpayer-funded travel to 10 states with 'anti-LGBTQ' laws, lawmakers and athletic teams are still going.
Trona Catholics kept the faith as their town declined. Then, two earthquakes hit
Attacking City Hall is a popular tactic in this Valley district, even for someone who spent years at City Hall.
Steven Appleton bought 4.5 acres smack in the middle of the L.A. River. Private land in a public waterway comes with few rights, but he's hoping one of them is to tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "No more Roundup!"
There's a kind of cultural and political paradox at this moment in time when it comes to the phrase "words matter."
A Los Angeles-based court of appeal justice will face a legal tribunal Monday on charges that he sexually harassed other judges, staff and a security officer and appeared in public intoxicated.
Plus, a look at the week ahead and major headlines across the state.
The massacre of 20 people by a man who reportedly wanted to shoot "as many Mexicans as possible" marks what appears to be one of the deadliest hate crimes ever against Latinos.
The deadly cliff collapse in Encinitas last week raised questions about the stability of large swaths of the state that are lined by bluffs.
Reports of shots fired Sunday night at the Yuba-Sutter Fair in Northern California. No injuries were reported and police now don't believe there was a shooting.
Southern California officials expressed grief and outrage in response to mass shootings that occurred less than 13 hours apart this weekend.
Family and friends gathered to remember a girl killed in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. Then, news of El Paso hit, leaving mourners reeling again.
Here's what we can do to stop the madness of mass shootings like those in Gilroy, Calif; El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. It should not be this hard.
Mass shootings in Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso over the last week spurred fear and talk at one Gilroy restaurant that the president had incited violence.
Family of California teens accused of killing Italian cop says truth will come out