Two gunmen invaded a home in Tulare County in Central California early Monday, where they killed six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby, in what the authorities said was presumed to be a gang-related attack. Officers arrived at the home in Goshen about 4 a.m. local time, after someone called the police…
SAN MATEO, Calif. — More than two weeks of storms have already hammered California, and one more is on the way over the holiday weekend. The relentless downpours and their impact — flooded homes, flattened cars, downed power lines and more — have killed at least 19 people and disrupted the lives of millions more…
At Donner Summit, scientists at the Central Sierra Snow Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, on Saturday reported more than two feet of snowfall in less than 36 hours , and state transportation officials were turning big rigs around amid deteriorating road conditions. At 7 a.m., more than 30 semi trucks were parked in…
The latest round of storms in California created punishing travel conditions across the state on Saturday, with icy roads snarling traffic in the Sierra Nevada mountains and downpours cutting off roadways south of San Francisco along the Central Coast. By Saturday afternoon, mountain highways had closed several times after cars and trucks lost control and…
Another week of storms. The toll of so many days of rain in California became increasingly apparent on Tuesday: An apartment building roof in South San Francisco flew off early in the morning. A sinkhole opened in Chatsworth and swallowed two cars. Two motorists died when a tree fell on them on a highway just…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — As rain lashed Southern California overnight, parts of the Los Angeles area experienced flooding — an unusual twist for a typically dry, sunny place where people tend to worry about droughts. Forecasters warned that little relief was expected on Tuesday. Rainfall in many parts of the state has exceeded a foot since…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — As California reeled from another bout of extremely wet weather on Monday night, most of Los Angeles County was under a flash flood warning — an unusual twist for a dry, sunny place where the concern is typically a lack of water. The flash flood warning for southwestern Los Angeles County was…
And with more storms on the horizon, the mountains could see more rain that may lead to flooding. “Now that we have a saturated snowpack, we’re probably not going to get a lot more storage from the rain that falls on it,” said Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist and manager at the Central Sierra Snow…
Karla Nemeth, the director of the California Department of Water Resources, the agency that manages the Golden State’s most precious resource, said that California must toe a fine line during intense winter storms. On one hand, the state desperately needs winter rain and snow to replenish water supplies before the annual dry spell that often…
SACRAMENTO — For the past six years, Laura Friedman’s workweek has begun with a short commute up to Northern California on Southwest Airlines. “Every Monday morning, I fly to Sacramento,” said Ms. Friedman, a Democratic legislator from the Los Angeles area who leads the transportation committee in the State Assembly. “And every Thursday afternoon, I…