As flames from the Woolsey fire roared across a hill early Nov. 9 and licked at her Bell Canyon home, television host Adrienne Janic calmly took out her cell phone and began filming. She felt relatively safe, even as embers rained down and singed pepper trees dotting the 3-acre estate. Adrienne Janic and her husband live streamed…
Gil Cisneros defeated Republican Young Kim on Saturday in the last of Orange County’s undecided House races, giving Democrats a clean sweep of the state’s six most fiercely fought congressional contests and marking an epochal shift in a region long synonymous with political conservatism. With Cisneros’…
Mountain lion P-22, seen in a 2014 photo, has been located since the Woolsey fire ripped through the Santa Monica Mountains. A younger cat, P-74, is still missing. MALIBU — All but one of the mountain lions being tracked by the National Park Service in the Santa Monica Mountains have been accounted for in the…
The death toll from California’s worst fire on record rose to 76 as President Trump vowed Saturday to help California recover from the devastation and work to prevent catastrophic blazes. The number of those still unaccounted for continued to rise, standing at 1,276 people as of Saturday night….
Democrats are set to control every House seat in Orange County, completing their swift and historic sweep of the conservative bastion, after the Associated Press on Saturday, Nov. 17 projected that Gil Cisneros would win the 39th Congressional District race. The region’s sudden political shift marks a sharp rebuke of the GOP and of President…
President Trump said California can learn from Finland on how to fight fires. But the fires that burned Paradise and parts of Southern California are significantly different from the forest fires that hit Finland last year. In an interview this week, Jonathan Pangburn, a fire behavior analyst for…
The Surfing Santa event in the sand and surf at Salt Creek is all about spreading the holiday spirit. Surfers and stand-up paddleboarders hit the water Saturday for the 8th annual Surfing Santa event in Dana Point, put on by the The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. The surf contest also serves as a fundraiser for Surfers Healing,…
