California’s legislative year ends on Friday. Here are some of the big bills we’re watching.

California lawmakers are set to adopt strict Obama-era federal environmental and worker safety rules the Trump administration is dismantling. Big water agencies are fighting it.

A 19th century law could shield the owners of the California diving boat Conception in which 34 people perished from significant damages. But they still face legal hurdles.

Deputies on Sunday, Sept. 8, arrested a man in Bakersfield who is suspected in a fatal shooting in Stanton about two weeks earlier. Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators worked with tactical teams from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department to take the suspect into custody,  OCSD officials said in a news release. He was transported to…

Should homeless housing be placed on a city-owned lot in Echo Park currently used for recreation, including basketball and handball courts? Two City Council members are in a rare public fight over it.

Riverside brush fire grows to 250 acres and threatens structures

An investigation concluded that the four teachers who posed with a noose were not motivated by racial hate and did not intend to cause the immense pain felt by parents and students in the Palmdale School District community.

Orange police were investigating the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found inside a home Friday afternoon, Sept. 6, authorities said. Officers were asked to check on the conditions of residents in the 500 block of S. Devon Road just before 2:30 p.m. and discovered the bodies, police said. The man and…

Salvage efforts to recover Conception boat off Santa Cruz Island have been suspended

Until now, Felicity Huffman has said virtually nothing of why she paid a college admissions consultant $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT score.