Some trains between Santa Monica and downtown L.A. have been so crammed that passengers with bicycles, wheelchairs and strollers have been stranded on platforms.

A state review found that students at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy have suffered under years of rapid staff turnover, inadequate class offerings, excessive discipline and substandard academic performance.

Of the more than 2,600 bills introduced this year in the California Legislature, none captured the public’s attention like Senate Bill 276. Prompted by an alarming rise in measles cases and allegations of questionable vaccine exemptions, it was the legislative equivalent of a Rorschach test.

Chinese Embassy officials on Saturday said they had dispatched staffers to assist victims of a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah that killed four people and left 27 others on board critically injured.

Firefighters threw substantial resources at a small brush fire near Lake Elsinore on Saturday, Sept. 21, and prevented it from growing past about five acres. The fire burned in the area of Olive Street and Garner Road just south of the lake and slightly outside the city limits in a community at the base of…

SANTA ANA — A bat found inside a bike rental shop in Orange last week tested positive for rabies, officials said Saturday. It was the second such finding in the past two weeks. The latest discovery was made on around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the shop at Irvine Regional Park at 1 Irvine Park Road,…

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake 11 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., was recorded Saturday at 8:19 a.m. PDT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Giovanni Bolla’s tiramisu is helping him pay his rent, thanks to his daughter’s social media campaign

A look at California stories from the last week, including Trump’s visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco

The Black Keys made tickets to their Wiltern show nontransferable to third-party vendors, leaving fans who bought tickets from sites such as StubHub turned away at the doors.