A heatwave was bringing unseasonably high temperatures to California on Thursday, sparking a bushfire.

Thieves break into freight trains on Los Angeles's railways on a daily basis in the aftermath of the US economy crippled by the coronavirus crisis.

Bodycam footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows the "chaotic" police shooting of a teenager in a California department store.

A 70-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in California has been shut down due extreme winter weather, with forecasters warning that travel could be difficult for the next few days.

Four children, including an infant, and their grandmother were found shot to death in a Southern California home and the children's father was arrested on suspicion of killing them, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

The robbery at a Bay Area Nordstrom department store followed another brazen mob-heist of high-end stores on Friday night.

The number of cases and hospitalizations is rising in the US state of California amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The western US drought, the most severe in 125 years of record-keeping, is exacting a toll on communities throughout the San Joaquin Valley in California.

Authorities across northern California spent Monday inspecting damage from a powerful storm that drenched the state.

Motorists in the Northern California town of Fairfield had to deal with flash floods on Sunday.