A wildfire raced across the dry hills above the California city of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, forcing thousands of evacuation orders and drawing hundreds of firefighters tried to stop the flames from reaching homes.
Little Mac, Santa Barbara Zoo's last elephant, has been euthanized after a series of health issues, the zoo said.
The US Coast Guard on Tuesday suspended the search for victims of a deadly Labor Day boat fire off the California coast, officials said.
Twenty bodies have been found after a 75-foot commercial diving boat on a Labor Day excursion caught fire off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in Southern California, according to Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown who spoke to the New York Times.
Residents in Southern California may have thought they were elsewhere in the United States as they witnessed a powerful display of lightning in the night sky Tuesday.
This is the extraordinary tale of how a massive, strange-looking fish wound up on a beach on the other side of the world from where it lives.
Rhami Zeini was driving home from school when he spotted a black purse in the middle of the road.
Tens of thousands of Californians have evacuated their homes as a storm approaches and could bring "dangerous flash flooding, mud and debris flow" Friday.
Two days after the Golden Globes and a speech that had everyone talking, Oprah Winfrey's thoughts are not on her presidential prospects but with her neighbors in Santa Barbara, California, where heavy rains have caused dangerous mudslides and led to fatalities.
The Thomas Fire is now the largest wildfire in California's modern history after torching 273,400 acres.
