There was a sense among watchers of the California Legislature that the final hours of the 2019 session would be a bit of a letdown.

Firefighters tackled a brush fire in Irvine near the 405 Freeway on Sunday, Sept. 15. The fire burned near Shady Canyon Drive, just west of the freeway, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Paul Holaday said. It had scorched about three acres by 5:15 p.m, then grew to between 15 and 20 acres before crews managed…

An 18-year-old was killed and another man was wounded late Saturday during a fight that escalated into a shooting outside the Rose Bowl, police say.

Firefighters took advantage of favorable winds and fought fire with fire against a weekend blaze that forced a couple of hundred evacuations in San Jacinto as flames drew dangerously close to homes. The Horseshoe fire that broke out Saturday evening in the Juniper Flats area east of Nuevo in Riverside County was up to 490…

Aguilar and his family are Mexican American entertainment royalty — and a metaphor for modern-day Los Angeles, mixing English and Spanish, mariachi and Guns N’ Roses.

A reporter finds that the Aguilar family’s story is much like his own

Almost 15 years later, Nathaniel Ayres lives in a locked mental rehab facility, and the rest of us live at the center of an epic collapse of care and a failure of leadership.

Vegetation fire in Riverside County prompts evacuations

The city usually displays the U.S., California, POW-MIA and Costa Mesa city flags. After it displayed the rainbow flag, a city councilman wants two additional flags flown.

A man was shot and killed in a possible drive-by shooting in front of a Santa Ana home early Saturday morning, authorities said. Officers dispatched at 4:41 a.m. to the 500 block of East Pine Street found a man with a gunshot wound to the upper body, the Santa Ana Police Department reported. About ten…