California has by law acknowledged beavers, nature’s preeminent water and environmental engineers, as partners in environmental restoration.

Forecasters say the region this week could see the worst winds since 2011, when a massive storm cut through Pasadena and other parts of the San Gabriel Valley.

A record number of Californians enrolled at UC in the fall while out-of-state and international students declined. Berkeley and UCLA bucked national trends at elite universities with increased Black and Latino enrollment.

An attorney for Keith Middlebrook said they would appeal and called Magic Johnson, who testified during trial, “the biggest liar I’ve ever seen.”

Mike Rinder, a former executive leader for the Church of Scientology who became a whistleblower after he left the organization, has died. He was 69.

A small plane crashed outside a home in Temple City on Monday morning but did not hit any structures, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

Hundreds of volunteers have searched thousands of acres around the waterway where the teens were last seen.

Noushin Faraji accuses ex-Fox Sports host Skip Bayless of making unwanted sexual advances toward her, including offering the hairstylist $1.5 million to have sex with him, a lawsuit states.

The Central Valley is home to many of California’s most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It’s also where wastewater surveillance of the virus is the weakest.

At least two people were reported killed and several more injured after a multiple-car collision on the westbound 134 Freeway in Pasadena, authorities said.