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The Northern California resident says her Belgian Malinois named Eva is a hero for grappling with the cougar on Monday near the Trinity River during a walk.

At least five people have been hit in a shooting at a church in the Laguna Woods area of Orange County, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five older people before a pastor hit the gunman on the head with a chair and parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.

Federal inspectors found that Plains had made several preventable errors, failed to quickly detect the pipeline rupture and responded too slowly as oil flowed toward the ocean.

The last time a drought of this magnitude hit the American west, it was 800 A.D. Charlemagne was reigning as Holy Roman Emperor over in Europe. NBCLX climate storyteller Chase Cain shows you how climate change led to the current “megadrought” and how it is impacting farmers.

At least 20 homes were burned in Laguna Niguel after a brush fire spread through the southern California city.

In Southern California, a wildfire erupted Wednesday in the coastal community of Laguna Niguel and burned more than 20 homes, many of them multimillion-dollar mansions.

She joins a growing number of public officials, celebrities and musicians who have discussed their experiences.

California Democrats have accelerated their plan to make the nation’s most populous state a sanctuary for women seeking abortions, propelled by the release this week of an early draft of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has ignited a surge of activism among the state’s vast network of providers and advocacy groups.

A follow-up to an earlier Associated Press investigation finds that the crisis at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, is far from over.

A girl suffered serious injuries in an encounter with a coyote Thursday night at a Southern California beach.

“The Princess Bride” star invoked a reference from perhaps his best-known film after was hospitalized from a rattlesnake bite in California.

Some California residents finally figured out last week the source of strange rumbling and snoring noises in their home — a mother bear and her four cubs had been hibernating beneath the South Lake Tahoe house.

A woman stranded six days in a broken-down car in a remote Northern California forest survived by rationing yogurt and eating snow, authorities said.

“It would be poetic justice to have someone storm your offices and shoot up the place, leaving none of you commies alive,” Jeremy David Hanson allegedly wrote.

The man was part of an exploitation ring in which members filmed themselves sexually abusing more than 20 children and then distributed the footage on the dark web.

The mummified body found in the wall of the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California, was identified as a 42-year-old man who vanished nearly two years ago, the coroner’s office said Tuesday.

A man was killed after becoming pinned between his car and some machinery at an automatic car wash near San Diego, police said.

The girl was standing near the front of the school when a man pulled up, got out of a car, and attacked her in what police say appears to be a random attack.

More than 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, but only 0.5% it is actually accessible to us. Removing salt from ocean water, known as desalination, can create drinkable water during a time of extreme drought and soaring demand. So what’s the problem?