In March 1938, the Los Angeles River crashed through bridges and destroyed homes, overrunning its banks on a deadly rampage to the sea.

Inky the octopus waited until it was dark and the staff had gone home from the National Aquarium of New Zealand before making his move.

California’s governor on Wednesday blamed the Trump administration for withholding data that is blocking the release of $650 million in state aid to combat homelessness.

The Annenberg Space for Photography and Explore.org head into the ocean via a fresh exhibit.

A large fishing ship ran aground on a remote Pacific atoll early Thursday, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was helping coordinate the rescue of its 24 crew members. The 308-foot (94-meter) Chinese-flagged Ou Ya Leng No. 6 ran aground on uninhabited Taka Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West said. He said a Coast...

On the year anniversary of the Borderline mass shooting, a grieving community is united by love and a local sports team offering to help the healing.

President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California’s wildfires. The president in recent tweets blamed California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires because of state forest management practices and said California’s fires were too expensive and worse than in other states. In fact, the fires were not raging mostly in forests. The bulk of California’s forests are...

A powerful earthquake shook the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and sending people dashing out of homes and buildings in a region still recovering from recent strong quakes. The 6.6 magnitude earthquake was caused by movement in a local fault about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) deep about 25 kilometers northeast of Tulunan town in Cotabato province,...

Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.

An endangered sea turtle is being treated at the Marine Mammal Center near Sausalito.

Video from the cockpit of a water-dropping helicopter shows flames and smoke rising from a hillside Monday at the height of of a brush fire in Pacific Palisades that threatened nearby homes.

Oh my gourd. Malou Nubla shows off the Half Moon Bay haunt at Farmer John’s Pumpkin Farm on California Live Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.

Nina Zarina of Campbell, California was the women’s winner of today’s 35th annual Long Beach Marathon by more than three minutes, while Nate Clayson of Saratoga Springs, Utah was the men’s winner.

A capacity field of 3,200 has entered Sunday’s 35th annual Long Beach Marathon, including 15 runners who have completed all 34 previous editions of the race.

Escalating its fight with California, the Trump administration accused the state Thursday of failing to stop water pollution from such sources as human waste left on the pavement by the homeless in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Scientists have their eyes on a heat wave in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that bears a striking resemblance to “The Blob” of 2014, 2015 and 2016. A large area of water that’s much warmer than normal is already beginning to affect marine life. If it persists, it could cause problems up and down the California coast.

There are several spots around Southern California that need your time, effort, and give-back gumption.

Plastic, tires and sediment are flowing across the border with Mexico and into the U.S. and the city of San Diego, according to the amended state of emergency adopted Tuesday.

Thirty four people are presumed dead in the California dive boat fire and the search has been suspended. Santa Barbara County Bill Brown said Tuesday that the bodies of 20 victims have been recovered and divers have seen between and four and six others in the sunken wreckage, which must be stabilized. Brown says the recovered remains include 11 females...