By choosing Schiff, voters rejected the leftward swerve promised by more liberal alternatives. By advancing Garvey, they set up a conventional partisan runoff.

University of California applications rose to 250,000 for fall, driven by a rebound in transfer applicants and gains in racial, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.

A guide to daylight saving time: its U.S. origins, the pros and cons, and what lawmakers are trying to do about the semiannual clock changes.

There was no description of who shot the arrow at the victim or what led to the incident.

Lake Elsinore at its deepest point is now several feet deeper than it had been. Officials say that’s good for business, though challenges remain.

Michael Hart is the first person to be charged in the U.S. with smuggling potent greenhouse gases that are commonly used as refrigerants, federal prosecutors said.

LAPD inspector general Mark Smith is a finalist for a job overseeing court-ordered reforms at the police department in Portland, Ore.

Leah Grossman said she had been in disputes with her homeowners association but never expected one of its members to be seen on video marking up her groceries.

A state agency in charge of the little-known retirement plan for professional fighters voted Monday to pay one who was repeatedly told he didn’t qualify.

One person was killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in what one border agent called an exchange of gunfire between U.S. border agents and a robbery crew.