Southern California Edison’s admission that its equipment may have ignited the Hurst fire in the San Fernando Valley on Jan.

Alejandro Lopez, 21, of Downey and Orlando Cuevas, 18, of Long Beach each face felony charges after investigators with the ...

Cleanup crews contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers dumped asbestos-tainted wildfire debris in landfills that they shouldn ...

• 8:40 a.m. Bomb report, Patina Flats, 255 E. Second St. Police said this was a false alarm. A business owner called police ...

A tutor and a young man incarcerated at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey have been charged with smuggling scores of Xanax pills into the facility. Downey resident Alejandro Lopez, 21, faces ...

The Probation Department has been struggling for years to stop the flow of drugs into its detention facilities.

A civilian contract tutor for incarcerated youth has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly working with a teenage ward to smuggle Xanax into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, while the ...

The probation chief praised prosecutors and his own internal affairs investigators for their “swift and thorough work” in making the arrest.

For the past three days, firefighters in Riverside County, California, and elsewhere have been working nonstop to tame the wildfires.

Probation officials said several youths and staff members were hospitalized after a 'suspected overdose and possible exposure to an unidentified substance.' ...

His cause of death was listed as acute ethanol intoxication — or alcohol poisoning — by the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s ...