A man was killed and another hospitalized after a shooting early Saturday morning on J Street in midtown Sacramento, police said. Officers were dispatched just before 1 a.m. to the 2400 block of J ...

Southern California’s largest free two-day music festival will take over 10 blocks of Adams Avenue, with Jesika Von Rabbit ...

The southbound Linden Avenue off-ramp on Highway 101 in Carpinteria will be closed Monday, Sept. 23, through Friday, Sept. 27 ...

The southbound Linden Avenue off-ramp on US 101 in Carpinteria will be closed beginning Monday, September 23 through ...

The Bay Area is introducing new transit maps and signs to simplify navigation across its transportation services.

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It is not clear why the off-duty police officer shot the man involved in a road rage argument. News reports say the wounded ...

Investigators closed portions of an intersection after an off-duty Hemet police officer shot someone near Murrieta Hot ...

Heavy police activity and street closures Monday in Murrieta involved an officer-involved shooting, though few details were ...

The semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program — about 16,000 high school students, representing less than 1% of U.S. seniors — were announced on Sept. 11. The semifinalists, from the ...

Officials said crews were having "notable success in increasing containment" in areas such as Lake Elsinore, Decker Canyon ...