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An earthquake has rocked Southern California, shaking the Los Angeles area and forcing a halt to the Toronto Blue Jays-San Diego Padres game in San Diego.

Crews waded through thigh-high mud to check for gas leaks and survey damage as evacuated residents waited to find out if they could return to their homes.

Mudslides destroyed at least two homes and badly damaged a number of others on Saturday in foothills surrounding Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm pounded Southern California.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for eastern Contra Costa County today after a trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near Brentwood. Tornadoes are rare in California and almost unheard of in the Bay Area, but this is the second time this week the weather service has issued a warning locally. Santa Clara County was put under a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. No twister materialized.

The sky was blue and the sun bright for the first time in days after a week of powerful Southern California rain storms, but ...

Ozone blowing over from Asia is raising background levels of a major ingredient of smog in the skies over California, Oregon, ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged hundreds of Californians to heed evacuation orders and flee their homes before a dangerous storm hits their area Wednesday morning.

Jackknifed big-rigs and spun-out vehicles littered freeways in the Los Angeles area as hubcap-deep pools caused by overwhelmed storm drains kept travel lanes impassable. The National Weather Service canceled its flash flood advisory for ...

National Weather Service forecasters in California said they believe rising ocean levels caused by the massive American Samoa earthquake will be mostly felt along the Central Coast, roughly from the Monterey Bay sound to Point Conception in Santa Barbara County.

Officials issued new evacuation orders this morning as a Ventura County wildfire grew to nearly 8,500 acres.