Even Alex Honnold, the fearless rock climber who famously scaled Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes, knows better than to battle Mother Nature. The California native, who now lives in Las Vegas, delayed his attempt to… California native was set to free solo a 1,667-foot skyscraper. Then the rain started

This year’s midterm election already was going to be frustrating for many voters in a vast, rural swath of Northern California whose staunchly conservative district has been redrawn to favor Democrats after the passage of… GOP rails against Newsom’s late date for special election to fill Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s seat

A man accused of fleecing L.A.’s homeless services bureaucracy for $23 million was arrested at his Westwood home early Friday morning as part of an ongoing multiagency probe into the county’s multibillion-dollar efforts to tamp… L.A. homeless services fraud suspect spent millions on luxury lifestyle, authorities charge

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who allegedly became the head of a billion-dollar drug trafficking organization, has been apprehended by authorities, two sources told the Times. Authorities said Wedding, who is on the… Feds arrest fugitive Olympic snowboarder accused of becoming drug lord in Mexico