Actor Dick Van Dyke was among thousands of Malibu residents forced to flee their homes because of the Franklin fire.

With the ink dry on the County of Los Angeles’ $200-million purchase of the Gas Company Tower office building downtown, a fight is brewing over what to do with the 1960s-vintage headquarters it plans to leave behind.

The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the illegal sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas — used in culinary, industrial and medical spaces.

London Breed lost her reelection bid after six years as San Francisco mayor. After tackling a series of crises, including entrenched homelessness, the explosive rise in fentanyl use and the COVID-19 pandemic, Breed said she leaves office with her head held high.

The motive behind the shooting remains the center of an ongoing investigation.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has seized more than 90,000 pounds of marijuana from a property in the Hesperia area.

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rattled a large swath of Northern California likely increased spawning activity in fish to protect their population.

The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California censures member John Morris for making a racist remark about an Arab American employee.

The month-long search for Hannah Kobayashi appears to have come to a conclusion this week with her family saying they have found her safe.

As part of the plea deal with Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, California resident Alexander Smirnov will admit he fabricated the story that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.