A Santa Cruz County mother is facing multiple felony charges for the death of her infant. Early autopsy reports show the baby was exposed to cocaine and fentanyl.

In the L.A. County city of Alhambra, police warn that someone is leaving fake parking tickets on vehicles, with a QR code directing to a non-city website.

A former Anaheim church ministry volunteer was sentenced to more than 120 years to life in prison for molesting girls as young as 6 years old, according to authorities.

The hidden camera in a bathroom may have captured 20 patients who visited a chiropractor’s business in Valencia, a lawsuit claims.

University of California President Michael V. Drake announced Wednesday he would step down at the academic year, after managing the pandemic, policing, protests and budget woes during a challenging four-year tenure.

Another heat wave and monsoonal thunderstorms are expected to increase wildfire danger in California over the weekend into next week.

The Newsom administration is projecting that California’s State Water Project could lose up to 23% of its water-delivering capacity within 20 years.

A family of Rottweilers was abandoned by their owner as they fled the blaze. Firefighters found the dogs a few days later in a truck by the side of the road.

Only 15% of phone calls seeking psychiatric appointments for Medicaid patients resulted in an appointment in Los Angeles, the lowest percentage out of four cities in a “secret shopper” audit, researchers found.

Thousands of Californians have been trying to get Medicaid benefits for services to help medically vulnerable people remain at home, but the waitlist is thousands of people long, and the state is opening only 200 new slots a month.