A 21-year-old man died after slipping on wet rocks below Bridalveil Fall on Wednesday. Two other people were injured at the park this week.

The cliff collapse in Encinitas that killed three people underscores the dangers of bluff erosion along the California coast.

Brush fire shuts down two lanes of 5 Freeway in Castaic

A suspect stole a car in Mission Viejo, authorities said, and rammed into the locked and gated doors of a local liquor store early Saturday, August 3, during a burglary captured by surveillance footage. A silver Mercedes sedan that was seen crashing through the entrance of a business on the 2500 block of Charlinda Dr….

Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state’s governor said. Meanwhile, the police chief said among the possibilities being investigated is whether it was a hate crime. Two law enforcement officials who spoke to…

The lights, TV and Wi-Fi  adapter abruptly shut down inside Tera McVicker’s Irvine apartment as night fell Friday. Smoke from a fire at a nearby electrical substation left the smell of fumes in the air. Traffic signals visible outside went dark, as did the lights inside her neighbors’ residences. McVickers couldn’t sleep Friday night. Without…

A new plan from Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg would build more homeless shelters, and then stop allowing people to camp on the streets. But there are a lot of skeptics.

Orange County’s John Wayne Airport is back to normal this morning following a power outage Friday night that forced officials to cancel all flights for the evening.

The University of California was hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging denial of due process, a month after a similar suit was filed against the Cal State system.

A look at California stories from the last week, including the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival