CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS TELL HUNDREDS TO LEAVE SPRAWLING RIVERBED HOMELESS CAMP

Officials in Southern California on Monday notified hundreds of homeless people camped out along a dusty riverbed near a baseball stadium that they must mo... READ MORE›

STARFISH MAKING WEST COAST COMEBACK AFTER SYNDROME KILLED MILLIONS

Sea stars are being spotted in Southern California tide pools and elsewhere, the Orange County Register reported Tuesday... READ MORE›

STARFISH MAKING COMEBACK ON U.S. WEST COAST AFTER SYNDROME KILLED MILLIONS

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA - Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them... READ MORE›

THOMAS FIRE BECOMES CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST BLAZE OF ALL TIME

This season is also the most destructive wildfire season ever in California... READ MORE›

ARMY OF FIREFIGHTERS TAKES ON STILL-GROWING CALIFORNIA FIRE

The Thomas Fire, the third-largest in California history, has been burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since it erupted Dec. 4... READ MORE›

NEW POWERFUL WINDS TO TEST FIRE CREWS

Hot and dry Santa Ana winds have ignited wildfires across Southern California... READ MORE›

FIREFIGHTER BECOMES SECOND FATALITY IN MASSIVE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN INFERNO

A return of gusty Santa Ana winds brought renewed activity to inland portions of the so-called Thomas Fire straddling coastal Ventura and Santa Barbara counties... READ MORE›

FIREFIGHTER DIES WORKING AT HUGE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE

A return of gusty Santa Ana winds brought renewed activity to inland portions of the so-called Thomas Fire straddling coastal Ventura and Santa Barbara counties... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA FIRES UPDATE: LATEST ON THOMAS, LILAC, CREEK AND SKIRBALL WILDFIRES

The largest fire in Southern California this week, the Thomas Fire burned through 237,500 acres by Wednesday afternoon... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: MORE EVACUATIONS AS THOMAS FIRE RAGES ON

The fires burning across Southern California have forced the evacuation of more 200,000 people and destroyed around 1,000 buildings... READ MORE›

ASH FROM CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES FALLS LIKE SNOW AS CELEBRITIES JOIN OTHER EVACUEES IN DESPERATE FLIGHT

Light gusts were driving the flames away from communities, Santa Barbara County fire spokesman Mike Eliason said... READ MORE›

DANGEROUS WINDS PERSIST AS WILDFIRES ROAR IN CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES AP -- The winds aren't changing for Southern California's wildfires yet... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA'S THOMAS FIRE GROWS TO FIFTH LARGEST IN HISTORY AS STARS EVACUATE

The wind-swept blazes have forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California... READ MORE›

FIREFIGHTERS PROTECT COASTAL CALIFORNIA TOWNS AS BLAZE RAGES

Meanwhile, containment increased on other major blazes in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RAGES TOWARD SCENIC COASTAL COMMUNITIES

The fires burning across Southern California have forced the evacuation of more than 200,000 people and destroyed some 1,000 structures... READ MORE›

NEW EVACUATIONS ORDERED AS WINDS REINVIGORATE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE

Brown issued emergency proclamations last week for Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, freeing up additional resources to fight the infernos... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES 'A NEW REALITY' SAYS DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA JERRY BROWN

With climate change, some scientists are saying southern California is literally burning up, he added... READ MORE›

AS WINDS RELENT SCORCHED CALIFORNIA HOPES FOR FIRE RELIEF

California's state fire agency said favorable conditions helped make considerable progress today but warned that residents should remain vigilant as conditions can change quickly... READ MORE›

AS WINDS RELENT SCORCHED CALIFORNIA HOPES FOR FIRE RELIEF

California's state fire agency said favorable conditions helped make considerable progress today but warned that residents should remain vigilant as conditions can change quickly... READ MORE›

CHRISTMAS WILDFIRES MAY BECOME THE NEW CALIFORNIA NORM

The military provided C-130 planes for firefighting, said Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Office of Emergency Services... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS MAKE GAINS AHEAD OF STRONG WINDS

Published December 10, 2017 7 41 am Firefighters monitor the Thomas fire as it burns through Los Padres National Forest near Ojai, California... READ MORE›

FAST-MOVING FLAMES FORCE CALIFORNIANS TO FLEE ON A MOMENT'S NOTICE

On Friday, the first fire-related death was confirmed by the Ventura County medical examiner's office... READ MORE›

'WE DROVE THROUGH A WALL OF FLAMES'

Fierce dry winds drive California wildfires toward San Diego... READ MORE›

JUST SUBTRACT WATER - HOW A DRY SPELL ALLOWED WINDS TO LASH CALIFORNIA WITH FLAMES

The last time Southern California saw a blaze in December that burned thousands of acres was in 2006, the records show... READ MORE›

NEARLY 200,000 PEOPLE FLEE HOMES AS FIFTH WILDFIRE ERUPTS IN CALIFORNIA

Almost 200,000 people have been forced from their homes by wildfires rampaging through California as firefighters on Thursday raced to tackle another new blaze... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA TODAY A SPECIAL FIRE EDITION

That lack of precipitation is one reason fires have exploded across Southern California this week, officials said... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WOMAN LEADS OFFICERS ON SECOND CHASE IN 2 DAYS

LOS ANGELES AP -- Authorities say the same woman led officers on vehicle chases through Southern California on back-to-back days... READ MORE›

BLISTERING TEMPS BRING FIRE WARNINGS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES AP -- The risk of wildfires will spike as triple-digit temperatures blanket parts of Southern California early this week... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: RECORD HEAT, FIERCE WINDS FORECAST

Record heat, fierce Santa Ana winds to fuel wildfire threat in California... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA CANYON FIRE CREATES EERIE ORANGE SKY OVER DISNEYLAND

Posted October 10, 2017 22 29 40 Smoke from a fire sweeping through Southern California has created an eerie orange haze over Disneyland... READ MORE›

1 KILLED, 20,000 EVACUATED BY WILDFIRES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Then the evacuation order was applied to the area, located 50 miles 85 kilometers east of the Los Angeles downtown... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 14 DEAD IN SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTING NO MOTIVEKNOWN

... They came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said... READ MORE›

AMERICAN WOMAN AMONG THE DEAD

Nohemi Gonzalez, from El Monte, California, was a junior studying design, according to a statement from Cal State Long Beach sent to CNN... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA TRAIN DERAILS AFTER COLLISION WITH LORRY

Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson estimated the train struck the lorry at a speed between 40 mph to 50 mph 65-80km h ... READ MORE›

MYSTERIOUS LIGHT IN NIGHT SKY SENDS CALIFORNIANS INTO TIZZY

The Union-Tribune reported that police and news media in San Diego were flooded with calls at about 6 p.m... READ MORE›

CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION APPROACHES PIVOTAL SHOWDOWN WITH OIL INDUSTRY

California Democrats push to curb emissions and promote clean energy would alter how the state does business and change the way residents live... READ MORE›

BEYONCE'S SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE: WHY WAS IT SO SIGNIFICANT?

After an intensely political new music video, Beyonce paid tribute to historical black figures in her Super Bowl show... READ MORE›

SAN FRANCISCO COULD BE HIT BY MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE 'ANY DAY NOW', SAYS USGS SCIENTIST

The San Francisco Bay Area could be struck by a major earthquake any day now, says a scientist with the US Geological Survey... READ MORE›

PROTESTERS JAM STREET, SMASH COP CAR OUTSIDE TRUMP RALLY IN CALIF.

Police had placed themselves between the anti-Trump crowd and Trump supporters, many of whom began shouting Build that wall!... READ MORE›

PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT AT TRUMP RALLY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Some people in the crowd temporarily blocked a highway entrance and used benches from a hotel to block traffic, The Los Angeles Times reported... READ MORE›

MAN CHARGED WITH ATTACKING UBER DRIVER SUES DRIVER FOR $5M

The now-viral video captured by a dashboard-mounted camera shows Golden repeatedly striking Caban on the trip in Costa Mesa... READ MORE›

COLLEGE STUDENT FROM CALIFORNIA STUDYING ABROAD KILLED IN PARIS ATTACKS

California State University, Long Beach, officials said they could not say at which restaurant Gonzalez was killed... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNS GENDER WAGE-GAP BILL

Equal pay isn't just the right thing for women, it's the right thing for our economy and for California, Jackson said... READ MORE›

Related Nearly 2,000 Fighting Huge Wildfire in California MacLean extensively researched the 2006 Esperanza Fire in Southern California -- one of the state's worst arson wildfires... READ MORE›

POWERFUL STORM HITS SOUTHERN CALIF., KNOCKS OUT POWER TO THOUSANDS; 1 DEAD

A powerful Pacific storm rocked Southern California on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands in San Diego and killing at least one person... READ MORE›

STORIES OF THE CALIF. SHOOTING VICTIMS

He was a supervising environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County, according to his LinkedIn profile, supervising the county's land-use protection program... READ MORE›

WORLD RECORD SET FOR MOST RIDERS ON A SURFBOARD

On Saturday in Huntington Beach, Calif., 66 surfers rode a wave together on a 42-foot surfboard... READ MORE›

RECORD NUMBER OF SEA LION PUP STRANDINGS BLAMED ON WARMER OCEAN

A sea lion pup in care at the Marine Mammal Centre in Sausalito, California... READ MORE›

SEARCH FOR SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTERS' HARD DRIVE CONCLUDES IN CALIFORNIA LAKE

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said specialized divers with the agency concluded their search through a San Bernardino lake for abandoned evidence... READ MORE›

EX-PTA PRESIDENT AWARDED $5.7M AFTER COUPLE PLANTED DRUGS IN HER CAR

Kent Easter declared bankruptcy before the civil trial but such protection doesn't extend to the lawsuit damages, said Rob Marcereau, Peters' attorney... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA'S DROUGHT WOULDN'T BE SO BAD IF THE REST OF YOU WOULD SHARE SOME WATER

Isnt this supposed to be the United States of America? If California is weathering a drought, shouldnt we have each others backs?... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNS AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION BILL

It ranks 38th in the nation in voter registration rates of eligible citizens, Gonzalez's office said last month... READ MORE›

TWO REMAINING FUGITIVE CALIF. INMATES CAUGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO

As officers approached the van, Nayeri fled on foot but was captured after a short chase. The officers then returned to the van and found Tieu hiding inside, Hutchens said... READ MORE›

EL NINO OCEAN WARMING 'CAUSING HAVOC' FOR SEALS OFF CALIFORNIA COAST

A further 100 Guadalupe fur seals and 150 northern fur seals have also been washed up, state-wide... READ MORE›

BODY OF THREE-WEEK-OLD BABY FOUND IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DUMPSTER AFTER SHE WAS SNATCHED FROM HER LONG BEACH HOME

Long Beach police said in a statement Although little is known about the suspect, detectives do not believe the shooting was a random act of violence... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE ENGULFS MOTORWAY LEAVING PASSENGERS FLEEING BURNING CARS

Firefighters continue to battle the fast-moving bushfire which is sweeping across the Southern California mountain pass... READ MORE›

M.C. HAMMER URGES MAYORS TO FACE UP TO POLICE RACISM

The Berkeley students didn't recognize him so Oakland Calif.-native Hammer was able to listen to them... READ MORE›

BALCONY COLLAPSE IN CALIFORNIA 'MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY DRY ROT'

Balcony collapse in california may have been caused by dry rot... READ MORE›

FORMER OLYMPIC ATHLETE BRUCE JENNER INVOLVED IN CAR CRASH

Video Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner involved in car crash... READ MORE›

DOG PRESUMED DROWNED AFTER FALLING OVERBOARD FOUND SAFE 5 WEEKS LATER

The 1 1 2 -year-old German shepherd was spotted Tuesday on San Clemente Island, a Navy-owned training base 70 miles off San Diego... READ MORE›