West Coast

If you’ve visited your local In-N-Out Burger in the past few months, chances are that you may have ran into Sam Vonderheide and his two children, a central California family who are on an expedition to visit every location of the beloved burger joint in just a year.

Sam Vonderheide and his children, 10-year-old Berkeley and 12-year-old Emery, are on a mission to visit every In-N-Out restaurant within a year.

Two unusual weather phenomena combined to create some of the most destructive wildfires the West Coast states have seen in modern times.

Yuengling, about two hours northwest of Philadelphia, announced a joint venture with Molson Coors on Tuesday to break out beyond its traditional 22-state distribution area in the East.

Every year, storms from the tropics flood the West Coast, and a new study estimated the weather creates annual damage worth $1 billion.

Texas-based Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, Inc. plans to open a restaurant on the San Diego waterfront.

Recent data suggests San Diego is the fourth most expensive city in the country and the second most expensive on the West Coast when it comes to the average cost of a “top-tier general admission concert ticket.”

On new album “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream,” indie art rapper Open Mike Eagle works with 10 different producers to showcase his singular vision. He headlines Casbah on Tuesday, Oct. 24.

Del Mar Racetrack has announced its annual Bing Crosby Season concert lineup for 2017.

If there’s one thing Swirlies vocalist/guitarist Damon Tutunjian doesn’t like, it’s pretentious music reviews. Good thing this isn’t one. The seminal shoegazers play Space Bar on Thursday, Aug. 3.

Vancouver-based Pomo straddles the line between behind-the-scenes producer and in-the-spotlight electronic artist.

Robin Roth’s top weekend show picks include Mariachi El Bronx at the Belly Up, Face to Face at the Casbah, and the Flaming Lips at the Observatory.

California rock climber Brad Gobright reportedly reached the top of a highly challenging rock face in northern Mexico and was rappelling down with a companion when he fell to his death. Climber Aidan Jacobson of Phoenix, Arizona, told Outside magazine he was with Gobright, and said they had just performed an ascent of the Sendero Luminoso route in the El...

NBC 7’s Joe Little shows us the rainy side of San Diego.

The historic Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala turns 250 years old Thursday. Celebrations are planned throughout 2019 to mark the landmark’s milestone anniversary.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado is at the reopened road to La Jolla Cove that was closed for more than two months.

BAE Systems double dry-docked two guided-missile destroyers in a Barrio Logan shipyard — making it the first event of its kind on the West Coast.

Wild pigs are costing an East Bay city thousands of dollars in damages after tearing through soccer fields and neighborhood yards.

A photographer suspected of sexually preying on his models – some of whom were minors – changed his plea to guilty during court proceedings Thursday.

At the edge of an ancient lava flow where jagged black rocks meet the Pacific, small off-the-grid homes overlook the calm blue waters of Papa Bay on Hawaii’s Big Island — no tourists or hotels in sight. Here, one of the islands’ most abundant and vibrant coral reefs thrives just below the surface. Yet even this remote shoreline far from...