The state’s latest plan to manage the black bear population shows a much larger population than its last estimate. More hunting would fund more conservation and research.

In the Western U.S., the vast majority of oil wells in high wildfire risk areas are in California, and 2.6 million people live in close proximity.

Alison Chao, 15, hasn’t been heard from since Tuesday, when she left home on her bicycle for a short ride to see a family member in San Gabriel. Police are searching for clues.

Portions of Los Angeles County, including Palmdale and Lancaster, as well as smaller towns in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Antelope Valley, can expect to see temperatures of 100 to 110 degrees.

The tech outage disrupted operations Friday not only at airports such as LAX, but banks, healthcare systems and government agencies.

NASA just beamed Missy Elliott’s hip hop classic “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus ahead of two uncrewed missions to the planet of love.

A deadly clash between white cops and a Black man in 1985 led to years of tension and trials — but also inoculated the city against the sort of race riots that racked Los Angeles and other big cities a few years later.

Under former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, detectives secretly investigated and urged the state attorney general to prosecute a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote on a leaked list of problem deputies.

Fences in Los Angeles are undergoing a major aesthetic shift from vertical to horizontal as gentrification spreads. It’s a sign of a new trend of inward homeownership.

A man involved in a collision on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge fled the scene by jumping into the water, the California Highway Patrol said.