Jason Kandel

Police were pursuing a car on a freeway east of Los Angeles.

Southern California Edison had re-energized a circuit in the area near where a brush fire broke out Thursday night in the Ventura County hills, minutes before the area erupted in flames, the utility said on Friday night.

Power lines strung alongside Sepulveda Boulevard near the Getty Center sparked the Getty Fire that’s burned through 656 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains west of the 405 freeway and has destroyed a dozen homes, city officials confirmed Tuesday.

The family of a 13-year-old says he complained to an administrator that he was being bullied at his Southern California middle school days before the assault that was caught on cellphone video that killed him.

One person was killed in an 823-acre Calimesa blaze fueled by high winds that is believed to have started when burning trash was dumped in to a field of dry grass, officials said Friday.

One person was killed in an 823-acre Calimesa blaze fueled by high winds that is believed to have started when burning trash was dumped in to a field of dry grass, officials said Friday.

California officials again rejected parole Tuesday for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom more than four decades ago.

The owner of a scuba diving boat company has announced an indefinite suspension of its fleet in the wake of a boat fire off the Southern California coast that killed 34 people.

A man who was wrongly convicted of a 1998 murder in Southern California and spent two decades in prison has filed a federal lawsuit.

A 27-year-old transient convicted of beating and stabbing a Southern California couple to death in their home has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The LAPD held its annual suicide awareness walk to bring attention to officer suicide. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. See the full NBCLA and LAPPL behavioral health survey here.

The parents and brother of a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man killed during a confrontation with an off-duty Los Angeles police officer inside a Corona Costco expressed outrage Thursday over a grand jury decision not to indict the lawman and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin’s decision to defend the finding, without pursuing any criminal charges.

A decade after a 24-year-old woman with bipolar disorder was released from custody and whose remains were found nearly a year later in the Malibu hills, friends and family pressed Friday for a new investigation into what happened to Mitrice Richardson.

A trio of Emmy-honored actors are winners again for their guest performances in TV series, joined by an awards newcomer.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it was convening its highest level of investigation into the Labor Day disaster of a commercial dive boat that killed 34 people off the Southern California coast.

The search for the final victim of a boat fire off the Southern California coast has been suspended until early next week because of gusty winds and rough seas.

A judge has ruled that a racketeering lawsuit brought by a vineyard against a neighboring marijuana operation can go forward despite attempts to have it dismissed — a ruling that could increase the odds for vineyards and other agricultural businesses that have fought the presence of cannabis farms in their backyards with limited success.

A medical examiner in Texas has ruled that Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.

An ex-convict who fatally shot a California Highway Patrol officer and wounded two other officers in Riverside this month fired at least 100 rounds from a rifle before he was killed, police said Thursday.

An anonymous donor has given more than $30,000 to fund a reward for information that leads to whoever has killed more than 40 protected wild burros in the Southern California desert.