The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday over a challenge to a law letting cities fine homeless people, potentially radically changing the lives of the hundreds of thousands without homes. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that cities cannot ticket homeless people for camping in public when there were no alternative
Thousands of people in a city south of the Valley are without power on Tuesday morning.According to an outage map from Electrical District No. 3, 33,450 customers are without power in Maricopa on April 23.The cause of the outage is unknown. It's unknown when power will be restored."ED3 is aware of the outage," the electrical company wrote on Facebook. "Staff is working to determine the reason. Thank you for your patience."This is a developing story. Stay with us for updates.
Southern California’s rivers and creeks once teemed with large, silvery fish that arrived from the ocean and swam upstream to spawn. But today, these fish are seldom seen. Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by barriers and dams. Their numbers have been declining for decades, and last week California’s Fish and Game Commission voted to list Southern California steelhead trout as...
BEIJING >> Heavy rainstorms that swept across southern China over the weekend killed at least four people in riverside cities, while a search was underway for 10 others missing, state media said Monday.
At least five cities have voted to end their membership with the League of California Cities over policy disputes.
A California Christian club is fighting to put their cross back on display after city officials used eminent domain to remove it while citing complaints of it being "reminiscent of KKK cross-burnings" and offensive to "diverse communities."
Authorities are searching for survivors after a plane crash in San Bernardino County Saturday night. Preliminary information from the FAA indicates the aircraft, a twin-engine Gulfstream AC95
A small earthquake has shaken the Southern California desert near where the Coachella music festival is being held this weekend
A chilly spring storm system moving into Southern California on Saturday was expected to bring drizzles by 3 p.m. followed by a quarter to half an inch of rain through Sunday. "The latest storm total is looking to be around one quarter inch up to 1 1/2 [inches] for mountain areas," said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld, of the National Weather Service Oxnard station. Snow was forecast for the mountains above 6,000 feet, with up to 10 inches falling on the highest peaks and a dusting of up to an...
A massive fire broke out at a vacant restaurant at the end of the Oceanside Pier in North County San Diego on Thursday afternoon, the Oceanside Fire Department confirmed. The nearly 2,000-foot-long wooden pier was built in 1888, and is a focal point of the beachside Southern California city not far from Camp Pendleton. "The Oceanside Fire Department is currently engaged in fighting a fire on the Oceanside Pier," the department wrote on social media Thursday. "We are asking all citizens to...
Jennifer Castellon shook, tapped and blew on a box to shoo out more than 1,000 mosquitoes in a quiet, upscale Inland Empire neighborhood. The insects had a job to do, and the pest scientist wanted every last one out. Their task? Find lady mosquitoes and mate. But these were no ordinary mosquitoes. Technicians had zapped the insects, all males, with radiation in a nearby lab to make them sterile. If they achieve their amorous quest, there will be fewer baby mosquitoes than there would be if...
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended April 21.