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A new dangerous wildfire called the Norte Fire is spreading fast in Southern California. The flames started Friday in San Clemente and pushed toward San Juan Capistrano ripping through houses. Strong Santa Ana winds made the fire move way too fast for comfort. Officers ordered people to leave their homes immediately and opened local shelters. Electricity was turned off for thousands of people to stay safe. Here are the facts you need. The spark in San Clemente A fire began around San Clemente on

Authorities raided a “large-scale” methamphetamine lab in Lancaster on Oct. 14, seizing more than 1,000 pounds of meth, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. Although the bust happened in Los Angeles County, the investigation was related to a Kern County-based drug trafficking organization, the sheriff’s office said. Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies found the […]

Wind-whipped flames scorched multi-million dollar homes south of Los Angeles on Friday as a wildfire quickly ravaged hundreds of acres. The fierce winds were set to peak Friday across Los Angeles County but the high heat and low humidity meant the high fire danger would continue into the weekend.

Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Have Been Trying to Rent This Home Since August and Are Still Cutting the Price. The house was supposed to be simple math. Buy it, love it, move on, rent it out. For two people who built careers telling others how to flip homes, this should have been the easy part.

Two suspects were arrested for arson after a home and multiple vehicles were targeted and set on fire in Orange County. Authorities identified the suspects as Alejandro Santiesteban Jr., 22, and Jade Anguiano, 22, both Westminster residents. The investigation began on Aug. 22, when Westminster police were called to a vehicle fire at a city […]

LONG BEACH, Calif. — It was 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 and the unthinkable was happening all around Shawn Curtis: The boardwalk in front of his two-story beachfront apartment building was gone. The 25-foot-wide sand beach was gone. Salt water poured in from all sides. And now the building was slanting down into the ocean.

Two masked suspects broke into Rafaela Jewelry on the 700 block of South Broadway Street before dawn Thursday, then rammed a van through the store's front door as they fled, leaving behind shattered glass countertops and jewelry scattered across the floor. Los Angeles police had not determined what, if anything, was taken from the shop as of Thursday afternoon.

With high winds raking parts of Los Angeles County and a brush fire burning in the Malibu area, public safety power shut-offs were affecting swaths of Southern California Edison’s service area. About 35,000 SCE customers had their service preemptively cut in Los Angeles County with almost 70,000 more under...

Hot spots glow across a hillside during the Bryson Fire in Malibu AP Photo/Jae C. Hong A fast-moving wildfire destroyed multiple homes in Southern California as hot, gusty weather swept the region on Friday, prompting mandatory evacuations and widespread power outages. Television footage from KTLA showed several residences engulfed in flames in the Orange County community of San Juan Capistrano. Aerial coverage captured emergency crews directing water streams onto two-story suburban homes as fir

Nithya Raman-backed LAFLA faced scrutiny. BY MEGA A Los Angeles city report questioned how up to $87 million in public funds allocated to a tenant legal-aid program backed by mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was accounted for. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto claimed that some funds allocated to the LAFLA program, which Raman champions, may have been used for purposes other than those...