California
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce that he will extend the California Highway Patrol deployment in Oakland as the city grapples with a leadership crisis.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he will increase CHP shifts in Oakland and deploy National Guard prosecutors to help crack down on organized crime, carjackings and sideshows.
On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned hillsides careening toward the ocean, turning canyons into rivers of mud and rocks.
Two ski patrol members were trying to mitigate the threat of an avalanche after a storm had dumped about 6 feet of snow on the mountain in 36 hours.
Commercial flight tracking sites showed only moderate flight delays Sunday in Los Angeles, unlike at some other airports.
San Clemente city officials are looking to work with border patrol agents to install and monitor cameras along its beach and pier to curb illegal panga landings.
The toll might not have been as bad if extra engines had been pre-positioned much closer to the most fire-prone areas, former fire chiefs said.
San Diego sector Border Patrol agents announced the seizure of more than 80 pounds of cocaine in Temecula. The drugs were stashed inside an SUV’s false dashboard, authorities said.
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A woman charged in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont is scheduled to appear in federal court.
Everyone knows California is disaster-prone. But wildfires are supposed to be in the hills, not on the beach, and certainly not inside the borders of one of the biggest and best-prepared cities on the planet. That makes the Palisades fire all the more unearthly.