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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the city will stop doing business with North Carolina and Mississippi after the states approved legislation preventing anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
A lawyer representing nine students who sued the state - and won at the trial court - vowed Friday to appeal to the California Supreme Court and expressed confidence they have what's needed to prevail.
Correctional Lt. Philip Bracamonte says 60-year-old inmate Luis Valenzuela Rodriguez died Thursday night at a hospital in Chula Vista.
Restrictions announced this week leave fisherman nearly half of the opportunity to catch salmon compared to last year, under the recommendations of an industry oversight body.
A California assemblyman has been ordered to keep a safe distance from his estranged wife amid allegations that he physically abused her during their brief marriage.
Authorities in Woodland are asking for help in finding a missing 13-year-old boy.
Federal investigators say the Feb. 10 seizure is believed to be the first of its kind. The man attempted to enter the country at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry as a pedestrian, but was stopped because of an unusual bulge in his underwear.
San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties on Thursday asked a judge to block the powerful Metropolitan Water District of Southern California from buying sprawling delta islands.
Authorities have issued a statewide Amber Alert for a child taken in Monterey County.
JC Penney is taking their name quite literally for one day.
Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson's followers to take part in one of the nation's most notorious killings, is trying again for parole.
When a shipment fails to arrive to its intended destination, the nuts may already be in another state or on a ship destined for Europe or Asia, where they fetch top dollar on the black market, authorities say.
Perry has sought to buy the hilltop property in the Los Feliz neighborhood for $14.5 million and to relocate an adjoining house of prayer used by priests. Her bid has the approval of Los Angeles' archbishop but would have to be approved by the Vatican.
The federal review released last month made an object lesson of California, the country's No. 3 oil-producing state, where state and federal regulators have acknowledged since at least 2014 that state-permitted oilfield operations were violating safe-drinking water laws.
Joel Wright pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Diego to a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor. The 23-year-old faces 10 years to life in prison when he's sentenced in July.
