After 43 bids, the auction netted the most paid for an NBA championship ring. Kobe Bryant gifted the bling to his dad, Joe Bryant, in 2000.

California’s mandatory minimum wage for fast food workers took effect Monday, with $20 an hour now in place. Here’s what you need to know.

California has an above-average snowpack and the state’s reservoirs are mostly filled, bringing a substantial boost to water supplies.

Powerful unions and Prop. 28 author Austin Beutner say school districts are misusing money for expanding K-12 arts education and call for state intervention.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to a home for a domestic assault call for service. A man who drove away was shot and killed by deputies.

Mammoth and Big Bear resorts see multiple feet of new snow, while soaking rains and sporadic thunderstorms bring flooding to the Southern California coast.

A man who trains high school athletes throughout Ventura County has been accused of sexually assaulting a student.

A bill introduced in the California Legislature could require insurance to cover IVF, joining more than a dozen other states with fertility coverage.

Trump’s aim to abandon clean energy would mean collisions with California over electric vehicles, emission standards and offshore drilling restrictions.

Captains of fishing boats on the California coast are bracing for salmon fishing to be severely restricted — or possibly canceled for a second year.