Southern California

Legal rights for all inhabitants of the animal kingdom have been formally recognised in the Southern California city of Ojai after a council vote Tuesday night.

Police have arrested a woman for allegedly setting fire to a Target in Southern California in an attempt to cover up the theft of baby formula.

A Southern California mall will require unaccompanied minors to wear lanyards with their parent’s contact information after brawls broke out.

Passengers aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1288 were petrified as sparks flew when their plane landed onto the tarmac at John Wayne Airport in Southern California on Sunday.

A Southern California man in a red sedan jumped out and allegedly sucker punched an elderly man walking on the sidewalk. 

A photographer captured the photo of a lifetime during a southern California surf competition.

As Southern California continues to grapple with record drought conditions, an upscale part of Los Angeles is reportedly cracking down on the worst celebrity violators by installing a piece of hardware called a “flow restrictor” that can dramatically reduce the flow of water to the stars’ palatial properties.

Police say five suspects remain on the loose after they carried out a smash-and-grab robbery at a Virginia eyeglass store last month.

Police in southern California are looking for a pair of suspects they say used hammers to conduct a smash-and-grab robbery at a Kay Jewelers.

A new wildfire erupted Wednesday in wind-whipped Southern California, forcing the evacuation of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and nearby homes, as both ends of the state struggled with blazes, dangerously gusty weather and deliberate blackouts.

Tremors under the earth in California have not stopped since a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the area on Thursday evening.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Thursday morning in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles from Los Angeles, according the U.S. Geological Survey.

(AP) — A large earthquake has rattled a large swath of Southern California. There are no immediate reports of damage.

Authorities said a man shot and killed the mother of his child during a scheduled custody exchange in front of a Southern California police station on Sunday.

Vandals in Southern California are finding increasingly creative — and, at times, disgusting — ways of attacking electric scooters that some residents consider a nuisance, though many others find them a useful way of traveling short distances without using a car.

The Pentagon hit back at a Southern California high school teacher whose derogatory comments about service members during class made national news after they were secretly filmed by a student and posted online.

A woman living in Southern California has obtained United States citizenship despite no ability to read or write in any language and without knowing any English.

The 352-event earthquake storm that hit Southern California last week failed to cause appropriate concern due to the magnitude 7.1-magnitude monster that killed 295 in Mexico City.

Maritime authorities intervened to stop a National Geographic crew from baiting sharks off the coast of Long Beach in the midst of a local panic about great white sharks appearing near the shore, according to a local news report.

Southern California is experiencing a shortage of nearly one million affordable homes, as the region’s five counties are battling a harrowing rise in rents, a decline in incomes and an all-around housing shortage.

A man released under AB 109, Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature prison reform, now stands accused of committing two murders, including the murder of a Whittier police officer in February.

The water storage at San Luis Reservoir (shown above in March 2016, mid-drought) jumped from just 10 percent of capacity in August to 100 percent last month. But none of the $7.5 billion from the Proposition 1 Water Bond passed by voters in 2014 has been spent to increase water storage by raising the height of the dam.

On March 7, Los Angeles voters will have the opportunity to vote for or against a two-year moratorium on thousands of real estate development projects in the City of Los Angeles.

Over 40 percent of California is now drought-free, thanks to recent rain and snow across the state and especially in Northern California.

There is something decidedly odd about the California State Legislature’s decision to hire former Attorney General Eric Holder, now back at the prestigious Covington & Burling law firm, to fight the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

This week, the Long Beach, California-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its winter climate predictions forecasting a dry, hot January, February and March for Southern California.

Nearly two hundred people were evacuated from an Amtrak train in Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley, after authorities received reports of an armed man aboard the train.

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is attempting to rally Southern California to her cause by noting that the San Francisco Bay Area “controls everything” in California because of voting propensity.

Two more southern California fires sprung up on Monday, burning over 5,000 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains by Tuesday morning and raising the total number of firefighters battling the state’s six active wildfires to over 4,700.

California state officials may betray the promise they made to Southern Californians that the projected $68 billion bullet train’s first completed section would run from Burbank to the Central Valley.

Parents of an illegal alien that died while attempting to enter the United States illegally on a panga boat off the southern California coastline are suing three agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The X Train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas has scheduled its inaugural run for New Year’s Eve 2015-6. Tickets will go on sale on September, with 350 coach seats available on the retro-style Hiawatha Milwaukee Road locomotive for $99, and 150 more first-class and VIP seats for a higher price.

Strong rip currents proved too powerful for 10 T-shirt wearing beachgoers in Newport Beach waters this Memorial Day as they slipped out to sea–rescued only by a team of watchful lifeguards.

Thirty-one Californians have been struck with Salmonella, making it 53 total infections between nine states, most likely stemming from sushi consumption.

Sticky, black gobs of tar goo are washing up on southern California beaches–but before climate change activists sound the alarm, experts are saying the phenomenon is completely natural.

Iranians living in California are deeply skeptical of the emerging nuclear deal announced last week by the Obama administration. Many fled Iran for Southern California during and after the 1979 revolution–some after suffering human rights abuses, and many leaving property and relatives behind in uncertain circumstances.