The Latest Breaking News from California

Balloons can be a real menace, and not just those that may have been deployed by China to spy on the United States. Even the child-size pink plastic “Happy Birthday” balloon can be hazardous if left in the wrong hands. Or, more precisely, left from the wrong hands.

A generous amount of water dropped over Northern California this winter, and rolling green hills adorned with wildflower blooms are anticipated throughout the Golden State.

LOS ANGELES -- Inside a small warehouse, tucked behind a shuttered pawn shop in the heart of Hollywood, Crystal Lipps took the handle of a large black rolling cart loaded with donated boxes of carrots, bananas and other fresh food that once would have been destined for a landfill.

Qualcomm Inc on Monday said it was working with a group of Android smartphone companies to add satellite-based messaging capabilities to their devices. The San Diego, California-based company, which is the world's biggest supplier of chips that connect mobile phones to wireless data networks, said it is working with Honor,…

Homicide ‘clearance rates’ have plummeted over the past four decades, compounding relatives’ trauma

The same storm system that slammed California was threatening to bring hurricane-force winds to the Plains.

LOS ANGELES — Residents in parts of Southern California who have not seen snow in decades woke up to an icy wonderland Sunday morning following an epic winter storm that broke rainfall records and scattered fresh powder across the normally warm, sunny region.

Oakland, California, police investigated a run of shootings across the city late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, including a killing in the city’s Chinatown district and several shootings in East Oakland that left five people injured.

Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day in the dark Sunday as crews continued working to restore power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses in the Detroit metropolitan area following last week’s ice storm

WASHINGTON — Anmarie Swanstrom had driven four hours along twisting mountain roads, through the fire-scarred Shasta-Trinity National Forest, to Sacramento to catch a red-eye flight.

Billie Eilish caught an intruder staring through her window at her $2.3million ranch in California and has now been granted a protection order