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Commuter trains were canceled and delayed between Lancaster and Los Angeles for two hours Saturday after a person apparently walked in front of a Union Pacific freight train and was killed.

A man was fatally injured Sunday when he was struck by an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner passenger train in North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

Police identified Saturday the two students aboard a school bus in Athens when it was struck by a train Friday afternoon, killing one of them and injuring the other.

A woman who was shot in a Jeep Thursday morning appears to have been caught in the crossfire when at least two people opened fire in an area southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Hoping to clean up a stretch of cluttered roadway in the South Bay, one San Jose city councilman wants to acquire $60,000 in city funds to hire homeless people to clean up the piling debris two to three times per week.

More than a dozen cars on a 77-car freight train derailed late Monday night in central Illinois and officials expect it could take days to clear the scene.

The Greenway Trail is a pedestrian and bike path that stretches 4 1/2 miles through Whittier. Now the city wants to expand it to the eastern edge of the city, but to do so, they have to cut off vehicle access to the backyards of 39 homes.

Los Angeles leaders Friday hailed the close of escrow on nearly 42 acres of property key to the city’s plan to revitalize the Los Angeles River.

NBC4 obtained calls of the more than 100 people who reported mysterious booms, bangs, gunshots, explosions, firecrackers and M-80s to the city of Alhambra from January through August, before the calls stopped. The calls and a map of the locations reported offer some insight into what residents were dealing with. The source of the sound is one of the city’s...

A Union Pacific employee was arraigned Tuesday on felony negligence charges for his role in a fatal crash at a Gilroy railroad crossing last year.

After a social media outcry from passionate residents, a plan that might have prompted the closure of a near century-old dairy in the San Gabriel Valley is being reconsidered.

Broguiere’s Dairy, which was founded in 1920, could lose access to the street and be forced to relocate out of town due to a construction project affecting the intersection the dairy is located on, at 505 S Maple Ave.

Interstate 45 near Corsicana reopened Sunday morning after being closed due to all the rain causing flooding on the highway.

A signal system that automatically keeps trains from exceeding track speed limits would have prevented the deadly derailment in Philadelphia, officials said.

Tuesday’s collision involving an auto and a railroad was far from the first at the busy crossing on busy Rice Avenue just north of Fifth Street in Oxnard. Given the safety concerns, and with Rice Avenue designated as the main corridor between Port Hueneme and the 101 Freeway, transportation planners and Oxnard officials have long envioned a bridge to carry...

A day before a Metrolink train slammed into a truck in Oxnard, a plea was made to make the crossing safe for commuters and drivers. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015.

A woman wandered onto train tracks while talking on her cellphone Saturday morning, when she was hit by a fast-moving freight train and killed, authorities said.