A Los Angeles County case poses a test of whether companies that make engineered stone can be successfully sued amid the devastating rise of silicosis, which has killed more than a dozen countertop cutters across California in recent years.

CHP reroutes northbound vehicles to share southbound lanes after hundreds are stranded by cleanup of smoldering wreckage with lithium batteries between Barstow and Baker, CHP says.

The department said 28 people from the LASD are in France to be a resource for American citizens and athletes visiting and competing in the Games, and help sheriff’s deputies prepare for hosting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

A perfect storm of hot, dry winds, untouched brush and remote topography has fueled explosive growth of the Park fire north of Chico, now over 348,000 acres.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city will start aggressively clearing homeless camps in August, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives cities greater authority to move people off the streets.

Authorities seized thousands of stolen circuit breakers stacked in large storage bins belonging to Eugene Popa of Perris, who was accused of buying them from thieves and reselling them online.

An investigation conducted by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights concluded that multiple instances of antisemitic harassment — including swastika drawings, Hitler references and verbal threats — led to a hostile environment for Jewish students at a Carmel Unified school.

Farmers in one California county are challenging state officials’ effort to crack down on groundwater overpumping. A judge gives growers a temporary reprieve.

A Sacramento man was convicted of first-degree murder this week in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend and mother of four kids, according to authorities.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized an Oakland policy that limits when police can engage in vehicle pursuits, warning of “extreme danger to the public in allowing criminals to act with impunity.”