The Camp fire in the town of Paradise exposed fatal flaws in California’s wildfire prevention and preparation plans. Lawmakers at the state Capitol in Sacramento worked to address some of the problems in 2019.
In the shadow of Mt. Whitney, local officials frustrated by U.S. Forest Service budget cuts want to take charge of recreation facilities in the Eastern Sierra. Some conservationists are wary.
Proposition 187 was overturned, but the battle over the initiative taught anti-immigration groups how to better fight for their restrictionist cause.
Chico experienced an overnight population influx that a city would usually have decades to prepare for.
Robbers staged a smash-and-grab robbery Thursday night at a Macy’s fragrance counter at the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana. Three men smashed glass display cases and made off with perfume just before 8 p.m., according to the Santa Ana Police Department. The suspects put the bottles into duffel bags and left via the store’s south…
Vera Awaida pulled her two sons in for a tight embrace. With tears in her eyes, she faced hundreds of people looking toward her, with candles illuminating their faces at Los Cerritos Park on Thursday night. They stood where her oldest son, daughter-in-law and grandson spent their last moments together, before a suspected drunken driver…
The Woolsey fire was fast and furious, Los Angeles County’s biggest blaze ever, a wall of flame that ignited south of Simi Valley and quickly rolled over hills and destroyed wildlife and homes – lots of homes – during a wind-driven push that ended at the Pacific coast in Malibu. A firefighter works on a…
On the one-year anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill, hundreds gathered Thursday for the unveiling of a memorial inside a Thousand Oaks park. Known as a Healing Garden, the memorial was constructed in the heart of Conejo Creek North Park. It is meant to both honor the victims of…
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer alleges in a newly-unsealed letter to the state attorney general’s office that the still-active criminal case against a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend accused of drugging and raping seven women was “rife with prosecutorial misconduct” while under the leadership of former DA Tony Rackauckas. The accusations outlined by…
Authorities took 13 people into custody during an early morning sweep on Thursday, Nov. 7 in an operation cracking down on the Santa Ana Townsend Street gang. Santa Ana Chief of Police David Valentin announces that the OC Violent Gang Task Force executed multiple arrest warrants for members of the Townsend Street Gang in Santa…
