Two of Joplin’s celeb citizens who met nearly 40 years ago have had their paths cross again, now both in Southern California volunteering for the same ...

A veteran California Highway Patrol lieutenant commander who last year was awarded more than $2 million in her discrimination suit against the department has been additionally granted almost $1.3 ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

But approximately 13,000 people incarcerated across L.A. County jails and juvenile halls experience these catastrophes ...

On Wednesday the Department of Animal Care and Control  announced that the Castaic Animal Care Center (ACC)  has officially reopened  its doors to the community after a temporary closure due to the ...

A 31-year-old who died after being struck by a fatal hit-and-run driver on the 5 Freeway Tuesday evening in Castaic has been ...

A 31-year-old man who was struck and killed by a car as he was crossing the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway in Castaic on foot was identified Wednesday. Officers responded to a hit-and-run call ...

A man was struck and killed by a vehicle on the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway in Castaic Tuesday evening. California ...

Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County, Calif. in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to ...

Multiple law enforcement agencies from Kern County are in pursuit of a reported stolen vehicle Thursday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said its ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

At least 29 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across ...