A little more than four months after Christina Lynn Downer was last seen in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood, her brother, a “Saturday Night Live” writer, said investigators informed the family that she “is no longer alive,” though officials with the Los Angeles Police Department say that is not the case. Downer, 38, who may also […]

A new report from the American Lung Association revealed that two counties in the Inland Empire are the worst in the nation for ozone air pollution, failing all federal safety standards. At a city level, Los Angeles and Long Beach metropolitan areas were also ranked worst for ozone pollution. New federal EPA rollbacks are expected […]

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office has officially charged Britney Spears with driving under the influence. On Thursday, DUI prosecutors with the DA’s office filed one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of any alcohol and drug, which is in violation of VC 23152(g). The complaint states that the pop star committed the misdemeanor […]

Did you know there is a second-term Republican congressman from North Carolina named Chuck Edwards who owns six McDonald’s franchises? I certainly did not. Neither, for that matter, did his constituent, Leslie Boyd—until she received a letter notifying her that she was now banned from all of them. The Assembly‘s Jessica Wakeman has the full […]

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tiny blue jellyfish-like creatures are washing ashore along the California coast in a natural event that may be linked to developing El Niño conditions in the Pacific. Velella velella, commonly known as by-the-wind sailors, have turned up on beaches from the San Francisco Bay Area to Southern California. […]

After multiple beach closures in Orange County and a new uptick in shark sightings along the California coast this spring, experts are warning we may be in store for “a very sharky summer.” “We’re having an unusual early marine heat wave right now in Southern California,” said Dr. Lowe, marine biology professor and director of […]

Thursday is the final day for Californians to use any remaining funds on their Middle Class Tax Refund debit cards, a one‑time “inflation relief” payment approved by state lawmakers in 2022. Between October 2022 and January 2023, the state issued 16.8 million payments, including 7.2 million direct deposits and 9.6 million debit cards, to Californians […]

A perfect storm of global and local forces has driven the cost of a gallon of gas in Southern California to its highest level in nearly four years. KTLA’s Jillian Smuckler was at a Chevron station in Woodland Hills, where the price of a gallon of gas hit $6.29 Thursday morning. Nationally, gas prices have […]

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 years, from 1865 to 1965, Black people were systematically and actively excluded from participation in American democracy through racial violence, but more commonly through race-neutral […]