Southern California

Southern California union members working at Kaiser Permanente voted in favor of authorizing a strike against the health care company after months of failed negotiations, the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) announced Monday.

Train service has been halted for the next two weeks as crews shore up unstable ground along cliffside railroad tracks in coastal Southern California

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida eloped to Southern California, marrying his girlfriend Ginger Luckey in a small ceremony on Catalina Island.

Organizations are opening a world of produce for food-insecure families across Southern California.

With recall voting underway, many Southern California residents are reporting having problems with their ballots.

Amanda Sanchez represented and played softball at the universities of Missouri and Louisiana, but thanks to her dual citizenship, she managed to be called up to join the Mexican team at the Tokyo Olympics.

Here’s a list of 5 events San Diegans should watch at the Tokyo Olympics on Day 2, including an Olympic debut for a very Southern California sport, a pair of dominant water polo players, and the first medal events for swimming.

Competition in the Tokyo Olympics will begin in earnest Saturday California time, with 15 of the record 66 current, former and future USC students in action, the most among any American university.

Police and firefighters were on scene at Knott’s Berry Farm Saturday night after a person climbed to the top of the Supreme Scream ride.

Former Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, who became a hero in his community for steering hundreds of millions of federal dollars to projects in his inland Southern California district, but was criticized as an exemplar of pork-barrel spending abuses, has died. He was 86.

Jorge León, A lawyer from Southern California, managed to fulfill his biggest dream of becoming an American football player at 41. Many people told him that he was crazy, that he was too old, that he was too short, but that didn’t stop him from trying.

Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, karate will make their debut at the Tokyo Olympics with baseball and softball making a one-time return.

Low-income neighborhoods with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods in the Southland and within a vast majority of populous U.S. counties, according to a UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy study released Tuesday.

The CHP has issued an Amber Alert throughout Southern California for a 2-year-old believed to have been abducted by his father in Riverside County.

The search is on for an entangled, injured humpback whale in the waters somewhere off the southern California coast.

A 180-day program providing additional firefighting helicopters to departments in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties will begin Tuesday.

The 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee began Saturday on a virtual basis with a 13-year-old from Tarzana and two from Orange County among the reduced field of 209.

Three freeway shootings were reported Saturday, two along the 605 and one on the 405. A man suffered a single gunshot wound and was transported to an area hospital from a shooting that occurred on the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway in Irwindale, authorities said Sunday.

Some 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a Southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds.

A rise in scams involving home rentals and pets has prompted authorities in Ventura County to issue a warning cautioning people when making purchases or conducting business online.