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More than 100 structures were damaged and six homes were deemed unsafe for unrestricted access after record-breaking high tides flooded coastal neighborhoods in Orange County this week, and experts warn the worst may still be ahead. In Huntington Beach, 114 homes and other structures sustained water damage as seawater inundated low-lying areas, including Sunset Beach […]

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra says a mileage-based fee on drivers should be on the table to help pay for the state's road and bridge repairs, including a contribution from electric-vehicle owners who currently skip the gas tax altogether. Becerra made the comments during a campaign stop, as California's long-running study of a pay-per-mile system heads toward a key legislative deadline.

LOS ANGELES — A multi-million-dollar bridge left in the dark. Disrupted 911 calls. Entire communities losing connection. These are some consequences of damaged and stolen communications infrastructure across California, where a new law aims to crack down on copper wire theft and fiber-optic cable vandalism. In Studio City, longtime...

UC Riverside researchers detected microplastics at all seven Sierra Nevada snowfall sampling locations.

Lucas Antonio is lost somewhere in a maze of clowns. There are a dozen, or more, set up at the entrance of the Fresno Fright Nights, the Halloween attraction that opened at Island Water Park this month. The contorted bodies are dressed in stripes and polka dots, bright shocks of colored hair atop plastic white faces with wide-smiles of monster teeth. Plug them in and the animatronics come to laughing, snarling life. “They’re all their own characters, with their own names,” says Antonio, an 18-ye

It only took half an hour. High tide floodwaters transformed stretches of dry asphalt along Marin County’s Shoreline Highway just north of San Francisco into two-foot-deep tide pools this Tuesday—coastal hazards that the National Weather Service warns will persist across the Bay Area this month into Halloween. In a genuinely haunting preview of the havoc that warm expanding water from El Niño’s Kelvin waves is predicted to wreak during the weeks of America’s Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,

Fresh off helping California notch a new rocket launch record for 2026, SpaceX is eyeing its next mission on the West Coast . The good news for space fans? The day and time of the next liftoff from the Vandenberg Space Force Base should be ideal for spectators eager to see SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket get off the ground. The launch, targeted for Friday night (Oct. 30,) could paint a striking visage across the sky as the two-stage rocket climbs into orbit to deploy some Starlink internet satellites t

(This content was created with the help of AI.) California's coast just got a preview of the soggy winter ahead. Record-setting high tides on Monday and Tuesday sent seawater over seawalls and onto roads from San Francisco to Los Angeles, as a strong El Niño combines with an especially powerful alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth, the New York Times reports. King tides, which started with the full moon earlier this week, also flooded streets and sent seawater into homes in Florida and the Caro

The family of a man who died from extreme heat inside an unlocked patrol vehicle shortly after being released from Azusa police custody is now suing the city. Attorneys announced a federal civil rights complaint connected to the death of Eric Valencia, a father of two children. Surveillance video showed the 37-year-old leaving the Azusa […]

Ian Choudri, who has led the train agency since 2024, leaves a troublesome legacy marked by budget woes, project delays and various scandals, including questionable taxpayer-funded trips by consultants.