44+ min ago   (351+ words) With red-flag fire weather warnings in place, several agencies overseeing portions of the Santa Monica Mountains announced Wednesday they were temporarily closing many parks. In March, California State Parks, the National Park Service, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the…...

44+ min ago   (1090+ words) Damage from a week’s worth of high surf and El Niño-related storms brought many warnings from officials. Beaches were closed. Homes were evacuated and red-tagged. But one alert was targeted to a specific audience: owners of electric vehicles that were…...

44+ min ago   (908+ words) Southern California’s specter of ruinous wildfire is back. The first Santa Ana winds of the season are expected to bring 20- to 40-mph winds, and gusts potentially exceeding 60 mph to valleys and coastal mountain ranges through Friday afternoon. Scientists have projected…...

17+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1084+ words) Across California’s Central Valley, a reported surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that began last week has disrupted agricultural communities, sparked confrontations and left families scrambling to locate detained relatives. In the city of Kerman, Mayor Maria Pacheco confronted…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1123+ words) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman traded verbal blows on Tuesday, scrapping over public safety, the Palisades fire and the fate of Police Chief Jim McDonnell in the only televised head-to-head debate of the Nov. 3 runoff election....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (951+ words) Shohei Ohtani emerged from the visiting dugout at American Family Field with a bat in his hand, and the mass of media members scattered in foul territory up the third-base line shifted his way, pulled by the magnetic force that…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (762+ words) Nathaniel Lowe ended an eighth-inning tie with a two-run single after Chase DeLauter and Patrick Bailey homered off Drew Rasmussen, and the Cleveland Guardians rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Monday…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (841+ words) A record-breaking season of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean is battering the Southern California coastline. Researchers at Colorado State University confirmed on Monday that storms this summer have generated a higher accumulated cyclone energy, which measures the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (291+ words) Children's Hospital Los Angeles appoints 37-year veteran Desiree Ritter as Chief Nursing Officer. Read about her plans for patient care and nursing. Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has appointed Desiree Ritter, MHA, BSN, RN, NE-BC, as Senior Vice President of…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (823+ words) JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Rescue dogs Merlin and Siska are readying for an important mission out in the Mojave Desert: find animal poop. “The isolation, long-term, of those populations could mean that those wildlife species aren’t viable into the future,” Aiello,…...