Stephen Beal was sentenced Friday to life in prison for planting the homemade package bomb that detonated at an Aliso Viejo day spa in 2018.

The Police Commission will have to move quickly to get an interim chief in place over the next six weeks. Opinions vary about what qualities to look for.

The state has reopened applications for its California Dream Shared Appreciation loans, but this time it’s not approving the financing on a first-come, first-serve basis.

A posse of older residents is trying to rescue Huntington Beach from a hard-right wave. Donald Trump, they say, unleashed ‘a whole new way of politics.’

The Westside Pavilion is being remade as a UCLA biomedical research facility, an Orange County mall will become housing, and Gen Z seems to actually like shopping at malls.

Carrillo, who is running for a hotly contested Eastside City Council seat, was arrested Nov. 3 after she crashed into two parked cars in Northeast Los Angeles.

A state appeals panel instructed a lower court Thursday to put the state’s lawsuit against Surf City’s housing policies back on the fast track.

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and California Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond previously announced their bids for governor.

A new storm won’t be as intense as earlier ones that brought flooding to some areas, but 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected in the basin and up to 5 inches in the foothills.

The University of California enrolled a record number of California undergraduates in fall 2023 and cut out-of-state students to accommodate surging local demand for seats.