Southern California

The first case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Los Angeles County, health officials said Thursday.

In delightful new video captured off the Southern California coast, about 400 dolphins put on a show for whale watchers.

The U.S. Coast Guard has designated the Mediterranean Shipping Company and others as parties of interest in an investigation into a vessel that was determined to be the source of an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California

Bill Clinton has returned to his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital.

Soon after the recent oil spill in Orange County, a lot of people sprang into action to clean the oil off of birds’ feathers and nurse them back to health — including a group from Northern California. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Dr. Michael Ziccardi, head of the group and director of Oiled Wildlife Care Network, about...

Three U.S. Marines from Southern California residents were among the American service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida eloped to Southern California, marrying his girlfriend Ginger Luckey in a small ceremony on Catalina Island.

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.

Police and firefighters were on scene at Knott’s Berry Farm Saturday night after a person climbed to the top of the Supreme Scream ride.

The search is on for an entangled, injured humpback whale in the waters somewhere off the southern California coast.

A 180-day program providing additional firefighting helicopters to departments in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties will begin Tuesday.

There is a danger in the desert you might not be aware of. Illegal marijuana operations are sprouting up, some spanning 40 acres or more in the high desert. These are multi-million dollar operations, many protected by armed guards.

Some 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a Southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds.

Authorties say residents in the Topanga Canyon evacuated their homes Saturday after a wildfire in a nearby area grew to more than a square mile

A beachgoer came across a rare find on his morning stroll when he saw a weird looking fish washed ashore at Newport Beach.

The first Vans shoe store opened at 704 E. Broadway in Anaheim on March 16, 1966.

As Western states prepare for this year’s wildfire season, the world’s largest firefighting plane has been grounded and could be converted to help fight against another crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic.

A prosecutor says a Southern California man killed his wife, then propped her body on a sofa in front of their children as they opened Christmas presents

Almost three-dozen missing children — including eight who were being sexually exploited at the time of recovery — have been found in Southern California during a recent operation, the FBI announced Saturday.