Crews searched Saturday for a Huntington Beach woman and her dog who went missing one day earlier near an Inyo National Forest campground, authorities said. Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, was last seen Friday afternoon near the Grandview Campground, a half-hour drive north of the community of Big Pine in the Sierra Nevada mountains,…

Three people were hospitalized and three lanes of the southbound 55 Freeway were blocked for about an hour in Costa Mesa as a result of a crash possibly involving three vehicles, authorities said. The Costa Mesa Fire Department said about 2:50 p.m. that it was conducting a heavy rescue on the southbound 55 Freeway at…

A fire at a Fountain Valley apartment complex early Saturday damaged or destroyed at least 35 cars and temporarily displaced residents in 15 apartments; and arson investigators were called in. Authorities received a call about the blaze at The Havens apartments, 10275 Slater Ave., at around 2:42 a.m., Fountain Valley Fire Capt. Nick Fasullo said….

With a new round of ICE raids set to begin Sunday, hundreds protested in Southern California and immigrants targeted by the Trump crackdown braced for the federal action. Many elements of the raid still remain unclear, including exactly how many are being targeted and how much the new action will…

Police are seeking a driver who they believe intentionally hit two pedestrians in Fullerton early Saturday morning, July 13, and then fled the scene. Officers responded to a call at 1:58 a.m. at Elm and Raymond avenues and found two men thought to be in their 20s lying in the street. They told police the…

More than 30 homes have been red-tagged as uninhabitable and 51 were yellow-tagged due to serious damage in Trona and surrounding San Bernardino County communities following two large earthquakes last week, according to initial damage assessments by state and local officials. The assessment includes…

When the magnitude 7.1 earthquake ruptured the earth in the Mojave Desert, it packed the energy of 45 nuclear bombs of the type that fell on Hiroshima. But a variety of factors lessened the potency and impact of what was the most powerful Southern California earthquake in nearly two decades. The…

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported at 5:57 p.m. Pacific time on Friday 105 miles from Amami, Japan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the USGS, the epicenter was farther than 100 miles from a city. In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or…

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake in the Ridgecrest area early Friday drove home what seismologists have been telling Southern Californians for the past week: In the wake of two strong quakes July 4 and 5, that area is likely to keep shaking for years. And while the chance of another damaging aftershock is small, it will be…

California authorities said Friday that crews are beginning to clean up a massive oil spill that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a Kern County canyon, making it larger — if less devastating — than the state’s last two major oil spills. The seep, which has been flowing off and…