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.

Clippers superstar forward Kawhi Leonard is the brother of one of the defendants accused of murdering and robbing an 84-year-old woman at Pechanga Resort Casino, Leonard’s family confirmed on Saturday, Sept. 7. One of Leonard’s sisters, Kimesha Monae Williams, 35, is being held without bail at Indio Correction Facility. Authorities say that on Aug. 31,…

P-61, who was first captured and outfitted with a collar in October 2017, had previously crossed the busy 10-lane freeway in the early morning hours of July 19.

A 36-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was found about a mile off the shore in front of Shaws Cove near Laguna Beach, authorities said. Laguna Beach lifeguards, police and firefighters responded to Main Beach about 10:50 p.m. on a report of a missing swimmer, Capt. Kai Bond of the Laguna Beach Marine Safety Department…

Officials planned to begin raising the boat Friday, but that was put off because of weather conditions and safety concerns.