California News

A former California mayor has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges after admitting to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a church. Tamara Wallace resigned as mayor of South Lake Tahoe last October after acknowledging she had taken money from the church, where she worked part-time as a bookkeeper. Fe...

A man accused of brutally beating a 71-year-old Crestline grandmother with a baseball bat is back in California to face charges. Detectives tracked down 26-year-old Erik Navarro at an Oklahoma jail, where he was being held on unrelated traffic charges. The family of victim Therese Garcia says she had welcomed Navarro, ...

King tides are flooding Southern California coastal communities for the fourth straight day. Sunset Beach resident Dianna Olea says she and her neighbors have been at the mercy of the tide all week. Homes, businesses and streets in low-lying communities are covered in several feet of water. Today's high tide is expec...

Drivers in Mill Valley are continuing to face travel disruptions as tidal flooding forces multiple road closures for a second consecutive day. Several streets remained shut down Wednesday after rising water inundated parts of the Northern California community. Miller Avenue was closed between Camino Alto and Almonte Bo...

The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office is suing Wagmor Pets, accusing the business of operating a "puppy-laundering operation." The lawsuit alleges Wagmor bought dogs from illegal puppy mills and resold them as rescued animals to unsuspecting customers. Officials say people who believed they were saving anima...

A woman is behind bars in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a 16-year-old boy and seriously injured his younger sister in South Los Angeles. The LAPD confirms the arrest of Raygine Glentasia Evans, who is accused of striking the two pedestrians on the night of September 22nd. Investigators say Evans was s...

A one-year-old child is dead after falling from a moving car in an Oakland school parking lot. Mayor Barbara Lee announced the toddler's death Tuesday evening, calling the incident an unimaginable tragedy. Police say the incident happened earlier Tuesday at Northern Light School, when the child fell out of the vehicle ...

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman is standing by her position that LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell would lose his job if she is elected mayor. Raman has made replacing McDonnell a key point of her approach to leadership at City Hall, signaling a potential shift in how the city's police department would be managed und...

Flooding continues to cause damage in several Southern California beach communities as another round of high tides is expected to create problems today. Roads in coastal cities, including Newport Beach and Huntington Beach, have been submerged, making travel difficult for drivers. The rising water has also flooded home...

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating three California school districts over student surveys that allegedly asked sensitive personal questions without parental consent. North Monterey County, Palo Alto, and San Francisco Unified are under investigation over activities used in Ethnic Studies classes. Reports...