LOS ANGELES — A dozen Pacific Palisades and Malibu residents are suing the city of L.A., alleging the Department of Water and Power and others could have done more to prevent and contain the massive January wildfire that destroyed their homes.

The list of plaintiffs, all 70 or older, reads like a cast of Hollywood characters, including a ...Read more

Brown pelicans across Southern California are filling up wildlife rehabilitation centers, either sick or starving — a dual crisis that wildlife experts believe could be linked to a massive toxic algae bloom.

For the last month, hundreds of seabirds have been poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced in harmful algal blooms that are ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's collective consciousness.

There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas, whose massive slip caused the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and whose notoriety...Read more

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen will travel to El Salvador on Wednesday hoping to check on the “well-being” of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man erroneously deported – and try to secure his release from a notorious prison.

“It should be a priority of the U.S. government to secure his safe release, which is why tomorrow I am ...Read more

A Michigan man has been sentenced after officials said he was upset his girlfriend went on a cruise so he sent in a bomb threat, diverting the ship.

Joshua Lowe was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to false information and hoaxes, according to court records.

McClatchy News reached out to Lowe’s attorney for comment ...Read more

President Donald Trump wants Congress to change a policy that gives certain drugs longer protection from drug price negotiations in Medicare, a fix that could address one of the drug industry’s top complaints with the Biden-era law.

Trump directed his health secretary to work with lawmakers to end the differential treatment for small molecule...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House announced Tuesday that it was eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a federal court ordered the administration to end viewpoint discrimination against The Associated Press.

The move will significantly reduce the traditional level of access for journalists from the AP, Reuters and ...Read more

The state of Maryland is allocating $1.7 million for a series of community-led environmental projects for the Back River and Patapsco River watersheds, which encompass Baltimore City and portions of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, and Howard counties.

The funding was announced at a news conference Tuesday at Cox’s Point Park in Essex on ...Read more

GREENBELT, Md. — A hearing for a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison turned into a noisy protest late Monday afternoon as his supporters chanted and sang outside the courthouse, and his wife accused the Trump administration of “playing political games.”

“God hasn’t forgotten about you,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House Republicans are moving ahead a bill that would allow the public to sue schools for having library books that they feel are harmful to minors.

Two House committees backed a bill Tuesday that says schools will not have books in school libraries that include “descriptions or visual depictions of sexual ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jury selection commenced Tuesday at Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan retrial, where dozens of New Yorkers stuck their hands up to say they couldn’t sit on the case — several because they couldn’t do so with an open mind.

Weinstein, 73, a Hollywood power player before facing sexual assault allegations by more than 80 women, was ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders said Tuesday that they will try to extend cap-and-trade, California’s flagship environmental regulation program, a week after the White House said it would target state environmental regulations for “threatening national security.”

President Donald Trump issued an executive ...Read more

NEW YORK — The lawyer for accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s wife says a Netflix docuseries raises “concerns and questions” about how investigators determined her and her daughter’s hair were found on the victims’ bodies.

The DNA evidence in the case against Heuermann has taken center stage in an ongoing hearing in ...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has canceled a popular grant program that previously awarded millions of dollars for Hampton Roads projects meant to protect against natural disasters.

On the chopping block is a $24.2 million award slated for the Lake Meade Dam, a drinking water reservoir operated by Portsmouth.

FEMA announced this ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The West Ada School District has faced weeks of backlash after instructing a sixth-grade teacher to remove signs containing inclusive messages from her classroom in Meridian. In its first meeting since the teacher went public with her story, the school board faced that feedback in person.

Testimony from dozens of parents, ...Read more