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The L.A. County Department of Public Health has confirmed its fourth measles case of the year. The infected individual flew into LAX and visited a few San Gabriel Valley fast food restaurants.

Shark attacks in 2025 were back to a normal level after a down year in 2024. California continues to overindex in unprovoked attacks, and in 2025 recorded the only shark-related death of the year in the U.S ...

A two-acre Los Angeles oil drill site near the St. Vincent Elementary School in University Park, had been releasing noxious fumes for years. Finally, the wells have been shut down.

newsom speaks at global security conference ...

A federal judge granted California and other states a temporary restraining order halting the administration's health funding cuts for 14 days while the litigation continues.

If humans can grow meat in labs, we could feed wild predators and reduce predation in nature.

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in the Angeles National Forest -- and what it can tell us about interdependent relationships in nature.

Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

California has set aside about $165 million in vouchers to subsidize the purchase of the Tesla Semi -- an electric vehicle that critics say is still not road-worthy.

Recent news of more than 30 cases of mushroom-related illness and death has prompted some Southern Californians to seek a mushroom education.