Los Angeles County leaders vote to eliminate a $400 fee for transporting and storing bodies with the medical examiner, saying families should be spared that financial burden.

An Orange County middle school teacher was arrested after a sting operation allegedly caught him sending sexually explicit text messages to an adult posing as a teen.

Gender bias led to a Central Valley mother being convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of her infant son, the California Supreme Court ruled.

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.