Marking the first time Hanukkah has begun on Christmas since 2005, Jews gathered at various sites around Los Angeles County on Wednesday, Dec. 25, to celebrate the launch of the "season of light." Scores more ceremonies will take place in the days ahead around the Southland.

Colorful Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations took place around the Bay Area and worldwide on Wednesday.

The Los Angeles Lakers (16-13) take on the Golden State Warriors (15-13) at Chase Center in a Christmas miracle.

The famed Santa Cruz Wharf on the California coast will remain indefinitely closed until further notice after part collapsed this week with city leaders fearing for its future due to growing effects of ...

Christians across Los Angeles County marked the birth of Jesus Christ with Masses, special services and other celebrations. Many also gathered to provide meals to the homeless and toys to needy children.

A restaurant manager who allegedly set up a cell phone to secretly record video in the women's restroom of a Santa Rosa restaurant was arrested this week.

Above-average precipitation has prompted officials to allocate more water through the State Water Project.

Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 82. His friend Daphna Kastner Keitel told the New York Times he died of cardiac arrest. Perry started out […]

A Covina teacher arrested in October on suspicion of molesting a student has now been charged with felony and misdemeanor counts alleging he committed sex acts on two underaged female students beginning in 2022.

Police in Seal Beach recently arrested shoplifters thanks to a new law under California’s newly implemented Proposition 36, which toughens penalties for certain theft and drug offensesmarking one of the first cases under the change, which began last week. As seen in a viral montage of security camera, dash cam, and body camera footage posted […]

California consumer confidence fell 1% in December after a 10% dive in November following Republican Trump's victory.

Southern Californians were talking about battles over commissions, affordability and ritzy housing.

First Presbyterian Church offers an overnight shelter service during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the timeless tradition of helping the needy and unhoused.

Hilton Hotel workers voted 99.4 percent in favor of the new agreement on Christmas Eve.

After Pittsburg parents got stuck in Mexico trying to help their deported son, the nonprofit worked to return them to the United States.

LOS ANGELES — Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, had their sentences commuted to life in prison on Monday by President Joe Biden. In 2007, Iouri Mikhel and Jurijus Kadamovas were sentenced to death after they were convicted of murdering five people in a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme. Prosecutors said the pair dumped the bodies i...

The president-elect's housing policy is hard to predict, but California could be disproportionately affected by his proposal to open up federal land to development.