California is planning to release within days as many as 3,500 inmates who were due to be paroled in the next two months as it tries to free space in cramped prisons in anticipation of a coronavirus outbreak, state officials said Tuesday. The move comes a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom halted intakes from jails, a move projected to lower…...

As coronavirus cancellations bring schools across the world to a standstill, depriving young people of the kind of precious memories made in classes, at sporting events and dances, teenager Natalie Reese of Danville, California, mourned the cancellation of her school prom. “I had already bought my dress,” the 17-year-old San Ramon Valley High Schoo...

Thousands of employees for grocery delivery service Instacart are planning to strike Monday, arguing that they deserve extra pay and personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves during the coronavirus pandemic.

A tall ship used as a classroom began sinking overnight in Dana Point Harbor, officials at the Ocean Institute said Sunday. “We are very sad to announce that Pilgrim, our beloved vessel that has served as an inspiring real-world classroom to hundreds of thousands of students and visitors, keeled overnight in her slip on our dock, rendering he...

It was in the poppy fields in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural that Michael Lerman proposed to Jenna Cutler in April of last year,  when few people had ever heard of novel coronavirus.  When the couple sent out their wedding invitations, they had no reason to believe anything could go wrong.  We don’t feel l...

A replica of the sailing vessel Pilgrim that Richard Henry Dana Jr. wrote about in “Two Years Before the Mast” has sunk at its dock in Dana Point, California, where it served as a classroom for marine science and maritime history programs. The Ocean Institute says the 130-foot-long tall ship keeled over in its slip on Sunday and is likely...

The Los Angeles Convention Center was being transformed Sunday into a federal field hospital to prepare for an expected surge in coronavirus cases in Southern California. California’s National Guard helped prepare the center Sunday, placing rows of hospital beds and medical supplies on the convention floor in an effort to relieve the pressure...

The USNS Mercy, a Navy hospital ship docked in the Port of Los Angeles, opened its doors to its first patients Sunday, officials announced. Requested by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the USNS Mercy Hospital ship will serve as a referral hospital in LA and carries trained medical workers and resources that will take care of non-COVID-19 related illnesses. The ...

A worker at an Amazon facility in Eastvale tested positive for COVID-19, the e-commerce giant announced Sunday. “We are supporting the individual who is recovering,” the company said in a statement. “We are following guidelines from health officials and medical experts, and are taking extreme measures to ensure the safety of emplo...

Mark Garrick approached his sister about making masks for first responders after hearing about the shortage, and they’ve made about 100 masks so far. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 28, 2020.

Lonnie David Franklin Jr., who killed at least 10 people between 1985 and 2007 — mainly in the South Los Angeles area — has died at the age of 67, officials at San Quentin State Prison said Sunday. Franklin, who was sentenced to death in Los Angeles in 2016, was found unresponsive in his cell at about 7:20 p.m. Saturday….

Two more sheriff’s deputies in Riverside County have tested positive for COVID-19, as well as an inmate — the county’s first incarcerated case — Sheriff Chad Bianco said Saturday. The announcement brings the total number of deputies known to be infected with the virus to three. On Thursday, officials said a deputy who worked...

Southern California Edison officials are investigating the release of about 7,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. A sudden surge of water “basically flooded the sewage treatment plant, it didn’t overflow but it flooded a different basin inside th...