Southern California

This list of local Olympians details all the athletes with Southern California ties who have won gold, silver or bronze medals in the Tokyo Olympics

California endured record-shattering wildfires last summer, and the coming months might be even worse.

Amanda Sanchez represented and played softball at the universities of Missouri and Louisiana, but thanks to her dual citizenship, she managed to be called up to join the Mexican team at the Tokyo Olympics.

Competition in the Tokyo Olympics will begin in earnest Saturday California time, with 15 of the record 66 current, former and future USC students in action, the most among any American university.

Most of the USA Beach Volleyball team is from Southern California and there’s a great shot they’ll bring home some medals. Daniella introduces you to the athletes that are digging for gold.

Experts say real estate is in the midst of the perfect financial storm. Interest rates are at record lows, there are fewer houses on the market, and now there’s a demographic shift among first time buyers. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 22, 2021.

The Walt Disney Co. stands to benefit from more than a half-billion dollars in tax breaks for building a new regional campus in Florida that promises to employ at least 2,000 professional employees who will be relocating from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development.

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder scored a major court victory Wednesday when a judge ordered that his name be added to the Sept. 14 gubernatorial recall ballot.

Former Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, who became a hero in his community for steering hundreds of millions of federal dollars to projects in his inland Southern California district, but was criticized as an exemplar of pork-barrel spending abuses, has died. He was 86.

Jorge León, A lawyer from Southern California, managed to fulfill his biggest dream of becoming an American football player at 41. Many people told him that he was crazy, that he was too old, that he was too short, but that didn’t stop him from trying.

Some of the filthiest sections of Southern California’s freeways have been getting extra cleanup lately following a series of investigative reports from the NBC4 I-Team. Joel Grover reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 15, 2021.

Some of the filthiest sections of Southern California’s freeways have been getting extra cleanup lately following a series of investigative reports from the NBC4 I-Team.

Low-income neighborhoods with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods in the Southland and within a vast majority of populous U.S. counties, according to a UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy study released Tuesday.

When you graduated from high school or college, chances are you had a class ring, but what if that ring was lost or stolen? A man has made it his mission to find the owners of rings. 

The LA County Emergency Rescue team is warning people to take precautions when hiking outdoors due to the extreme heat. Lauren Coronado reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on July 11, 2021.

Another crowded day at SoCal’s natural air conditioning playground. Mekahlo Medina reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 11, 2021.

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which manages the state’s power grid, has issued a statewide grid warning notice due to loss of resources and fire threat to the transmission system and is encouraging conservation.

The extreme heat is setting records this weekend, and it will be hanging on for a couple more days. No Flex alert has been called as of 7:00 a.m. but triple digit temperatures can out more strain on the state’s power grid. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News on Sunday, July 11, 2021.

Triple-digit weather was expected to bake parts of the Southland this weekend, with the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley likely to bear the brunt of the high-pressure system and the state urging energy conservation to prevent outages. Lauren Coronado reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on July 10, 2021. 

The coast will remain cooler while the heat wave continues for inland areas with dangerous heat in the deserts. Temperatures will be 5 to 10 degrees above normal. The heat is expected to peak over the weekend. Belen De Leon has the forecast for Friday July 9, 2021.