When lawmakers fixed California’s deficit-plagued budget last month, they left one aspect of the spending plan unfinished.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders Saturday as 6,800 firefighters battled to control nearly a dozen blazes across the parched state.

Dozens of firefighters, joined by friends and relatives, knocked on doors on the tree-lined streets of Chatsworth on Saturday, urging residents to complain to their council members about budget cuts to

The end of the road for a clunker is a lot like the beginning: a place where the air is filled with the sound of clanging metal and the heavy scent of grease. The nation’s wrecking and salvage yards are the last link in the $3 billion Cash-for-Clunkers chain that is trying to hoist the ailing auto industry back from the brink.

At a time when government agencies are cutting back on law enforcement, health care for children and services for the poor, the number of public servants collecting $100,000-plus pensions - including one raking in nearly $500,000 a year - has exploded in recent years, in some cases tripling or even

At a time when government agencies are cutting back on law enforcement, health care for children and services for the poor, the number of public servants collecting $100,000-plus pensions - including one raking in nearly $500,000 a year - has exploded in recent years, in some cases tripling or even

INGLEWOOD - More volunteer dentists and optometrists are needed to meet the demands of thousands of patients who have lined up for free medical and dental care offered at The Forum, organizers said Thursday.

AFTERMATH: Echoes of childhood horror sometimes come back to haunt survivors. For much of the decade since a white supremacist shot five people at a Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and murdered a Filipino-American letter carrier in Chatsworth, victims and their families thought they

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the greatest rock festival of all time … Vanessa Hudgens has a new movie!

A stamp commemorating the 1950s TV show “Dragnet,” which dramatized the Los Angeles Police Department, will be issued Tuesday during a ceremony at the LAPD Academy in Elysian Park.