A lawsuit accuses the University of California of racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Latino students over Asian American and white applicants. A group called Stude ...

The U.S. has notified the United Nations that it is freezing funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting ...

Authorities are trying to find two men who were spotted on security footage stealing fire equipment from a U.S. Forest ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Karen Lopez- Saavedra lights up when she talks about Santa Barbara. Though she has lived here since she was 6 years old, she is undocumented— something she’s never ...

The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has worsened, with officials saying the conditions will bring the “risk of large fire growth” beginning Monday. The National Weather Service ...

Days before hurricane-force Santa Ana wind gusts fueled fires that devastated Los Angeles, meteorologists posted eerily accurate warnings that such a scenario was possible. But they’ve had a ...

The terrain allows for the development of Santa Ana winds that cause any fire to spread very quickly. On a smaller scale, I saw firsthand how the wind and terrain could turn a small fire into a ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s where the best Los Angeles writers have done their work ...

Police in Santa Rosa said officers took two ... assumed he was associated with a rival street gang. The suspects challenged the victim to a fight and the three juveniles began fighting.

The blazes are still raging. And this week the so-called Santa Ana or "Devil" winds are back. This is what it could mean. What are the Santa Ana winds? Santa Ana winds are hot, dry winds that blow ...