Southern California is heading into a familiar winter weather pattern this week, with sunny skies and strengthening Santa Ana winds followed by a return to rain around the New Year, according to KTLA’s Kacey Montoya. While skies remain mostly clear Sunday and Monday, winds are expected to ramp up later Sunday afternoon and evening, with […]

Kara Swisher, the veteran tech journalist who had a leading hand in uncovering the affair between then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi, said in a Friday interview that RFK Jr. also needs to be held accountable given his long history as a “predator.” “It’s crazy that people don’t care,” Swisher said, […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order. Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the […]

At least one person was killed and 10 hospitalized following a fiery multi-car crash involving a semi-truck on the 5 Freeway Sunday morning, authorities say. The Los Angeles Fire Department stated that the incident occurred just after 5 a.m. on the southbound span of the 5 in Boyle Heights near 4th Street, which is just […]

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are surveying the rapid […]

Top stories from Politico Magazine from a rollercoaster year — and get you ready for 2026.

This past summer was the last for Morty Matz, who came within a few weeks of making it to age 101 and was razor sharp until the end. Matz was a former Daily News editor who became a public relations maven many decades ago. In this year-end send off, three of Morty’s friends remember him.

Loved ones are devastated after a 68-year-old man was found dead in a partially submerged car in Lancaster after a powerful storm hit the region. Family members said Robert Jerry Hiller, 68, who was a Navy veteran, was on his way to a Christmas Eve gathering with friends that night. After failing to hear from […]

Roads on the 5 Freeway have been shut down as authorities respond to reports of a gas line explosion in Castaic Saturday. Los Angeles County Fire crews responded to an area near Ridge Route Road and Pine Crest Place around 4:20 p.m. Details are limited and it’s unclear where the explosion occurred as authorities are […]

A woman accused of driving under the influence was charged with murder after an 18-year-old high school student was struck and killed in Manhattan Beach. Jenia Resha Belt, 33, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and one misdemeanor count of driving on a suspended or […]