The rarest fish on Earth swam for their lives when a powerful earthquake rattled Ridgecrest earlier this month.

FBI agents raided L.A. City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office on Monday, serving search warrants on multiple staffers in an investigation into two cases that emerged from the Department of Water and Power’s billing problems.

Scientist knew almost immediately that the Ridgecrest quakes were not on the San Andreas fault. But understanding how those temblors might impact the 730-mile monster capable of producing “The Big One” has been a vital.

The humidity-laced summer heat wave that has blanketed much of Southern California this week is likely to stick around for a little longer. A large area of high pressure has helped to usher in the heat and moisture to the region during the past few days, said Samantha Connolly, a meteorologist with the National Weather…

A brush fire in Corona briefly shut down lanes of the 91 and 71 freeways on Wednesday afternoon, July 24, as rush hour traffic started to ramp up. The No. 3 lane from the 71 southbound to the eastbound 91 was closed around 4:50 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol logs. Officials said the fire…

The ex-wife of a man on trial for the kidnapping, torture and sexual mutilation of a marijuana dispensary owner testified Wednesday to having lived in fear of her former spouse and having felt powerless to refuse to aid him in the run-up to the abduction. Cortney Shegerian took the stand for the second day in…

An Orange County man accused of wearing a green wig and a Joker mask while leading police on a chase from Westminster to Venice, where he was arrested on the beach, has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge. Damik A. Disdier, who allegedly displayed a prop chainsaw during the bizarre pursuit, could face up…

California just took a key step toward fulfilling a major promise of marijuana legalization — to provide relief for people previously convicted of cannabis-related crimes. By July 1, the state Attorney General’s office sent to county district attorneys the names of hundreds of thousands of people who are potentially eligible to have marijuana crimes downgraded or…

Some of the week’s highest temperatures are expected Wednesday, with the mercury rising to over 100 degrees in Woodland Hills and the Santa Clarita Valley.

LOS ANGELES — The Southland’s second heat wave of the summer enters its third day Wednesday, with some of the week’s highest temperatures expected in the valleys, and a heat advisory in place until 9 p.m. for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. “The combination of very high temperatures and humidity creates a dangerous…