A Mexican citizen was sentenced Tuesday to just over eight years in prison for his role in the deaths of two immigrants who were run…
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Huntington Beach’s police headquarters is falling apart. The original plumbing is decaying. The electrical system is overloaded. Portable fans are the norm for ventilation. Part…
Maurice Maio is the owner of San Diego Beach King, a vacation rental business in Mission Beach. But he didn’t sound like royalty on Tuesday,…
A colleague once observed, many years ago, that California has two seasons. Green and brown. We are in the latter, and death has visited my…
After months of fighting against higher costs, University of California students are poised for a pleasant surprise this year: a tuition decrease. UC regents, who…
The Rim fire in 2013 brought devastation to a vast swath of Sierra Nevada forests west of Yosemite National Park. But the third largest wildfire…
Reaching the Salton Sea’s Date Palm Beach in 1934 became easier with the opening of the North Shore road. Source: Los Angeles Times
The Ferguson fire burning through Mariposa County has already charred nearly 10,000 acres and killed a firefighter working the front lines. But its true destructiveness…
I’m a sucker for a good comeback story, which is why, instead of the usual morning run on Saturday, I found myself crouching on a…
In 1957, the city of Los Angeles Health Department opened a drive to immunize 300,000 children against polio. This photo by staff photographer Garry Watson…