A ferocious atmospheric river storm that has battered California for days began to taper off in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but officials warned that even small amounts of additional precipitation could set off landslides in rain-drenched Southern California. Between Sunday and Tuesday morning, the storm dumped record-breaking amounts of rain on the Los Angeles basin…
Parts of Southwest California on Sunday braced for heavy rains — potentially as much as an inch an hour — that could lead to life-threatening floods, officials said, prompting evacuation orders in some places and at least one school district to cancel classes for Monday. The Weather Prediction Center issued a rare “high risk” prediction…
Every fall, monarch butterflies from west of the Rocky Mountains start arriving in California to wait out the winter. The orange and black insects are closely monitored, because the number of western monarchs that come to California each year has dropped precipitously since the 1980s, when it was common to see millions annually. This past…
A powerful storm known as an atmospheric river swept over California on Thursday, soaking the state with rain and leaving a trail of damage that has become familiar to residents in recent years: fallen trees, flooded roads and snarled travel. Though the storm was not expected to cause the kind of chaos that was sown…
A call for a wellness check led the authorities in Southern California to make a gruesome discovery this week: They found six bodies at a remote crossroads in the Mojave Desert. Deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department found most of the bodies around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in an isolated area off Highway 395…
However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants. In fact, Mr. Threets has leveraged the power of social media to show that the public library is as joy-inspiring as it is…
A federal appeals court on Saturday allowed California’s ban on the carrying of firearms in most public places to take effect in 2024, halting a lower court judge’s ruling that had blocked enforcement of the law. The state law, Senate Bill 2, sets several restrictions on gun ownership, and Gov. Gavin Newsom approved it in…
A third day of rain, coastal flooding and gigantic waves along parts of the California coast forced residents to evacuate and left streets and parking lots flooded on Saturday, though forecasters predicted that conditions would soon improve in some areas. On Saturday, warnings of coastal flooding and dangerous waves of up to 20 feet were…
Rain, coastal flooding and waves as tall as 30 feet were expected along parts of the West Coast on Friday, a day after giant waves pummeled the California shoreline and prompted some evacuation warnings. More than six million people in coastal areas of California and Oregon were under high surf warnings overnight as breaking waves…
Interstate 10 in Los Angeles will fully reopen on Monday, more than a week after a fire severely damaged a section of the freeway, officials announced on Sunday. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said at a news conference that the interstate may be partially reopened as early as Sunday evening and would be “fully operational”…