Samuel Pasillas, 47, was arrested on Wednesday 13 March and charged with solicitation for murder, among other things

A police department in the US has come up with a unique way of posting suspects’ photos on social media that abides by a new law. Murrieta Police Department in california replaced possible perpetrator’s faces with lego heads on their social ...

Footage shows the moment an injured hiker was airlifted to safety by the california Highway Patrol. The injured woman was located in Napa County’s Skyline Wilderness Park after reports of her situation reached local emergency services. With prec ...

She left behind a tough california childhood to thrive as an adult at the cross-section of tech, law and society – running multi-million-dollar businesses while hobnobbing with (and marrying) the world’s most powerful. Now the 38-year-old is rum ...

Since no candidate received more than 50 per cent of the vote, the top two will now advance to another special election on 21 May

A US lawmaker appeared to drop the “F-bomb” during a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing on Tuesday 19 March. Two retired army generals testified about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 to the Republican-led committee chaired ...

All nine candidates are appearing on the same ballot regardless of party

Former Speaker’s replacement could be announced as early as this week

A gray whale mysteriously washed ashore in Malibu, california shortly before its death. The 13,000lb marine mammal was discovered beached on Saturday 16 March on the shores of Little Dume, a secluded beach popular with surfers. Malibu-based Californi ...

Researchers found that the Victorians brought so many seeds and saplings to Britain that the trees now outnumber those in their US homeland

While the plane’s occupants emerged from the crash relatively unscathed, the plane was found badly damaged

Hunter Biden is currently set to go on trial in the california case on 20 June, with the Delaware case now pitted to take place just days earlier

Right on the edge of London, you can see the mighty trees native to the West Coast of the USA

Giant sequoias, one of planet Earth’s biggest and longest-living trees, seem ‘suited to our wetter climate’, British researchers say

There have been 45 cases of the illness reported across 17 states in 2024

Civil rights advocates call for release of police bodycam video after Ryan Gainer killed on Saturday by deputy responding to 911 call

The images were shared online and in messages in late February, officials said

Authorities have detected a 2.5-mile-long oil sheen off the coast of Southern california but say it doesn’t appear to be a crude spill and are investigating the cause

Though the pro-Trump sentiment is palpable, locals dispute previous media portrayals of the city and tell Mike Bedigan that the Republican presence is perhaps not as confrontational as is being made out

At least five US states, including california and Missouri, prevant pregnant people from finalising a divorce. But with abortion under attack, women’s rights groups say such laws pose a grave danger to survivors of domestic abuse. Io Dodds reports