LOS ANGELES: Authorities lifted all evacuation orders as firefighters made progress Sunday on a large blaze that sent thousands fleeing homes and farms northwest of Los Angeles. Crews working in steep terrain…
LOS ANGELES: Calmer weather allowed crews to increase containment on wildfires after a three-week siege of gusts fanned blazes across California and led utilities to cut power to prevent winds from blowing…
SAN FRANCISCO: Millions of Californians were preparing to live in the dark again as the state’s largest utility warned it may cut power for the third time in as many weeks because…
LOS ANGELES: An F-16 fighter jet being flown in routine training exercises crashed into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in Southern California on Thursday, but the pilot safely ejected…
A powerful storm descending on California on Saturday threatened flooding in the entire San Francisco Bay Area and areas stripped bare by devastating wildfires. The storm that began moving in on Friday…
–Almost 500 people still unaccounted for SACRAMENTO: Hundreds of people remain missing in the wake of a pair of deadly wildfires that have been burning across both ends of California. The two…
CALIFORNIA: The number of people listed as missing in a devastating northern California wildfire soared past 1,000 on Friday as the remains of eight additional victims were found by rescuers. Butte County…
The death toll from the Camp Fire climbed to 42 on Monday, making it the deadliest wildfire in California history, as search teams sifted through rubble and ash in and around Paradise…
CALIFORNIA: Nine people were declared dead and tens of thousands evacuated Friday as fierce wildfires raged across the western US state of California, with one rapidly spreading blaze threatening the famed resort…
CALIFORNIA: Thirteen people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” on Wednesday in Southern California, sending hundreds fleeing in terror…
CALIFORNIA: California Governor Jerry Brown signed several gun control bills into law on Friday, including one measure that raises the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21. The…
CALIFORNIA: An unidentified gunman shot and killed five people in a series of shootings on Wednesday in southern California before taking his own life, police said. The man killed his wife and…
DEATH VALLEY: Death Valley has set a new record for the hottest month ever recorded this July with an average of 108 degrees Fahrenheit – breaking its own figure of 107.94 from…
SAN FRANCISCO: A Californian wildfire that began on the weekend has rapidly spread across 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares), authorities said Tuesday, with a growing number of areas affected by mandatory evacuation orders.…
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called on Congressman Brad Sherman of Democratic Party in Capitol Hill on Tuesday. PPP Spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said that Pak- US relations,…
CALIFORNIA: A US Army Apache attack helicopter crashed early Saturday morning in California, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the Army said. An investigation is ongoing into the crash of the AH-64…
CALIFORNIA: A California couple pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple counts of torture as grisly details emerged of how they allegedly kept their 13 children in locked rooms or chains, allowing them to…
