Two dogs found alone at Will Rogers State Beach have become the key to a search for their unidentified owner. Personal belongings and a missing-woman mystery have kept the case alive for weeks.

A person died after a vehicle struck a divider, overturned and caught fire on the 405-to-710 connector in Long Beach. The morning closure was lifted before 8 a.m.

Long Beach’s new home-restaurant rules helped launch Steak Freaks, but the backyard steakhouse hit its limits almost immediately.

Laguna Beach Unified is facing an independent review of five years of financial records, including health benefit spending and contracting decisions.

A Norco raid turned up a $1.8 million haul of stolen vehicles, from motorcycles to utility terrain vehicles. Two people were arrested.

Newport Beach approved roughly $1.5 million in contracts tied to a possible police headquarters at Civic Center Park, reigniting a fight over the site.

California’s $8.4 billion research bond promises medical breakthroughs, but its eligibility rules appear tailored to a UCLA-linked Los Angeles institute.

Hu's Szechwan, a Palms institution since 1977, is facing an October shutdown as it searches for a new Westside home.

California generated more than half its May electricity from solar, setting a milestone believed to be a global first for a large-scale power system.

Nithya Raman is making the Boyle Heights warehouse fire and L.A.'s rising homelessness count central to her case against Karen Bass.

A Fullerton woman lost $2,575 to a rental listing for a home that was never available. The scam’s playbook is spreading across Southern California.

Eugene “Big U” Henley faces new federal charges accusing him of soliciting violence against a witness from jail. The allegations add another explosive layer to Los Angeles’ sprawling racketeering case.

An overturned vehicle linked to a human trafficking suspect shut down every eastbound lane of the 105 Freeway in South LA.