SAN FRANCISCO — A wealthy San Francisco couple notched a record nearly half-million-dollar buyout to vacate their luxury apartment of three decades, an indication of what some landlords are willing to pay for tenants to give up their longtime home in a city with strict rent control and soari…
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest wildfire so far this year was flaring up Friday but it was because the flames were chewing through unburned islands of vegetation within a perimeter that firefighters have built, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES — Britt Johnson showed up around midnight to the West Los Angeles Federal Building, hoping to apply for a rushed passport when the office opened at 7 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — A state appeals court panel on Friday upheld the convictions of two men for the shooting death of a man in Glendale over comments he made to a woman he met at a nightclub.
Pacific Gas & Electric will face criminal charges because its equipment sparked a wildfire last year that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes, a Northern California prosecutor announced Thursday.
LOS ANGELES — The FBI is investigating what one commercial airline pilot said might have been an airborne person with a jetpack, high in the busy skies near Los Angeles International Airport.
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday said he will consider ordering all California prison employees and inmate firefighters to be vaccinated as the state tries to head off another Coronavirus infection surge driven by the more contagious delta variant.
OCEANSIDE — The families of eight Marines and one sailor who died when their amphibious assault vehicle sank off the Southern California coast last summer plan to sue the manufacturer of the vehicle that resembles an armored seafaring tank, their lawyers announced Thursday, a day before the …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare.
INDIAN FALLS, Calif. — California’s largest wildfire merged with a smaller blaze and destroyed homes in remote areas with limited access for firefighters, as numerous other fires gained strength and threatened property across the US West.
WEST HOLLYWOOD — A man seen carrying an unconscious woman into a white van and driving away has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
HESPERIA — A 14-year-old boy was behind the wheel of an SUV that collided with two other cars, killing a 59-year-old man, authorities said.
SAN RAFAEL — Two people were killed and four were wounded in a shooting behind a nightclub Friday night.
LOS ANGELES — The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee was ordered freed Friday on $250 million bail to face charges he secretly worked as an agent for the the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy.
SACRAMENTO — When Kevin Faulconer was San Diego’s mayor, his administration failed to follow best practices and conduct due diligence when spending hundreds of millions of dollars on real estate purchases, a city audit found.
LOS ANGELES — Authorities have identified skeletal remains found in a Los Angeles wetlands preserve last week as a missing 32-year-old woman, police said Friday.
SACRAMENTO — At a time when labor unions are struggling across the United States, California on Friday signed a first-time contract with 40,000 childcare providers under a new collective bargaining agreement.
OAK VIEW, Calif. — Authorities arrested a man Thursday after they said he fired gunshots at a California firefighting helicopter during nighttime training exercises.
MENDOCINO, Calif. — A Northern California coastal town popular with tourists is running low on water after two years of little rainfall during a drought in the US West, forcing residents and business owners to truck in water from elsewhere.
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite opposition from student groups, University of California regents on Thursday approved a multi-year plan to raise tuition and fees at one of the nation’s premier public university systems.
LOS ANGELES — Damage from a massive inundation of the main sewage treatment plant in Los Angeles will take a month or more to repair, the city sanitation department said.
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver, Washington man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to wire fraud after embezzling more than $400,000 from his San Diego-based employer, according to federal prosecutors.
LOS ANGELES — The top health official in Los Angeles County on Thursday implored residents to get vaccinated as the LA area sees a Coronavirus surge similar to last summer’s, while authorities in three San Francisco Bay Area counties urged employers to enforce mask-wearing for any workers wh…
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County residents are again required to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status — a new mandate starting this weekend that health officials hope will reverse the latest spikes in Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
LOS ANGELES — Police declared an unlawful assembly and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse an unruly crowd on Saturday after a dueling protest over transgender rights at a Los Angeles spa turned violent.
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers on Thursday approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the U.S., $35 million for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they spend it.
SAN JOSE — A gunman who killed nine co-workers at a California rail yard in May harbored “dark thoughts about harming” two specific people, according to a report by customs agents who questioned him upon his return to California from a trip to the Philippines in 2016.
SACRAMENTO — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of te…
EAST LOS ANGELES — Sheriff’s homicide detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in his 40s.
SACRAMENTO — Two men were killed and four others were wounded in a late night shooting in Sacramento’s historic district.
ANAHEIM — An Anaheim venue canceled an “America First” rally scheduled for Saturday that would have featured speeches by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida, prompting the two Republican firebrands to schedule a “peaceful protest” at Riverside City Hall instead.
LOS ANGELES — A Rite Aid employee was fatally shot Thursday while confronting two shoplifters in Los Angeles, according to police and the union that represents workers at the store.
CARLSBAD — A search for the missing owner of a boat that burned and sank off the Southern California coast was suspended Friday, the Coast Guard said.
LAKE ARROWHEAD — Fire destroyed seven boats and damaged five others before dawn Friday at a marina on Southern California’s Lake Arrowhead, authorities said.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — More than two dozen women described disturbing and dangerous encounters — including sexual assaults while they were semi-conscious and felt drugged — with the man charged with killing missing California college student Kristin Smart.
SAN FRANCISCO — A rapidly growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe forced the evacuation of a mountain town and the cancellation of an extreme bike ride through the Sierra Nevada, leaving thousands of riders and spectators stranded Saturday and rushing to flee the area.
ANGWIN, Calif. — Three people were killed Friday when a small airplane crashed and burned in a Napa County vineyard, the second air crash with multiple fatalities in Northern California in two days.
SACRAMENTO — Ian Benjamin Rogers had five illegal pipe bombs and nearly 50 weapons at his home and shop in California’s wine country, a “ThreePercenters” bumper sticker on his vehicle, a “white privilege card” at his house, and text messages that led federal prosecutors to charge him with co…
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Bay Area health officials on Friday urged residents to again wear masks inside public buildings, offices or businesses regardless of whether they are vaccinated.
LOS ANGELES — For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.
SACRAMENTO — The California attorney general’s office is launching its first required investigation of a police shooting of an unarmed civilian, acting in a Los Angeles County death where police said the suspect walking on Hollywood Boulevard turned out to have a fake gun.
LOS ANGELES — In the face of steadily increasing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, Los Angeles County residents will again be required to wear masks in indoor settings beginning Saturday night, health officials announced Thursday.
CASTAIC — Seven staff members and at least two inmates were injured Thursday in an altercation at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center.
Firefighters working in searing weather struggled to contain a Northern California wildfire that continued to grow Sunday and forced the temporary closure of a major highway, one of several large blazes burning across the US West amid another heat wave that shattered records and strained pow…
LOS ANGELES — It took nearly a decade and a federal lawsuit for US Marine Corps veteran Hector Ocegueda to finally come home.
BOSTON — An associate professor of dentistry at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty on Friday to a tax charge in connection with the sweeping college admissions scandal.
LOS ANGELES — City Council President Nury Martinez is likely to take over as acting mayor of Los Angeles should Mayor Eric Garcetti be confirmed as the next US ambassador to India.
SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the US West this weekend, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas.
HELENA Mont. — A grizzly bear that pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her earlier this week was fatally shot early Friday by wildlife officials, who used night vision goggles to stake out a chicken coop that the bear raided near the small Montana town where the woman was attacked.
SANTA ANA — A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the US Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media.
SACRAMENTO — California denied 21 oil drilling permits this week in the latest move toward ending fracking in a state that makes millions from the petroleum industry but is seeing widespread drought and more dangerous fire seasons linked to climate change.
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