California

A preliminary 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck about 14 miles north of Barstow shortly after 7 p.m. with two aftershocks of 2.2 and 2.9 magnitude recorded, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Saturday, Jan. 25 marks the Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. Many will be celebrating the Year of the Rat, the first animal of 12 zodiac signs that rotate in a dozen-year cycle. For those who don’t regularly celebrate the holiday, they may not know what it is, what the Year of the Rat signifies, let alone what their own Chinese zodiac sign may be.

The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state's requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.

Rapper YG was arrested at his Chatsworth area mansion on a robbery charge early Friday morning, authorities said. 

State wildlife officials are closely monitoring a wine spill that occurred Wednesday at a Sonoma County winery, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday.

Some environmentalists worry the wipes end up in waterways, and the bill is among a number of efforts in California to keep harmful products out of the waste stream.

Inside the residential home, police spokesman Officer Joe Silva told the Stockton Record that possibly “hundreds and hundreds” of military explosives and weapons were found inside. Twenty homes had to be evacuated.

A 65-year-old grandmother is accused of trying to sneak more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine into the U.S. at a border crossing.

A 65-year-old woman and her 19-year-old granddaughter were arrested at the California-Mexico border on suspicion of trying to get a vehicle containing more than 200 pounds of meth through the border.

A cute and mischievous 3-month-old puppy was rescued by firefighters after getting her head stuck in a spare tire in Coachella on Wednesday.

A 10-year-old student was injured by a stray bullet from a car-to-car shooting that occurred Thursday morning near McAuliffe Elementary School in Oxnard, authorities said.

Josh Stone, the Los Angeles-based rapper who is suing global superstar Ariana Grande, her songwriters and Universal Music Corp. for her chart-topping hit "7 Rings," spoke exclusively to FOX 11. 

There’s now a confirmed case of Novel Coronavirus in a man from Washington State. 

A passenger arriving on an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles International Airport from Mexico City was hospitalized and quarantined after showing what health officials called “disturbing" symptoms, that indicate the patient may have been exposed to the deadly coronavirus,  it was announced Thursday.  

The days of passengers bringing their pets on airplanes as emotional-support animals could be ending.

It's sick season, and a particularly fast-spreading outbreak of coronavirus in China has CDC officials urging everyone to practice proper hygiene, especially during air travel.

Smart was 19 when she vanished while attending California Polytechnic State University.

A Garden Grove couple who went missing while visiting Mexico last week has been found dead, according to the Attorney General of Baja California.