A 38-year-old man made his first appearance in court Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting two women while incapacitated in Santa Ana. Nicolas Mercado was charged Aug. 28 with rape by use of ...

The settlement resolves the federal investigation of the controversial use of informants in Orange County jails that was ...

Critical fire weather is expected to continue until Wednesday at the earliest, increasing the risk that fires will spread ...

The fire-ravaged city is preparing for elevated bushfire risk, with powerful winds set to return. Follow live.

Powerful Santa Ana winds, near hurricane strength at times, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and pushed wildfires into several neighborhoods starting Jan. 7, 2025. Well over 1,000 homes ...

A federal appeals court Thursday dealt a fatal blow to the Federal Communications Commission’s decade-plus effort to gain stronger oversight over the internet. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging ...

The FCC‘s effort to establish rules of the road for internet service has been sidelined again, as a federal appeals court has blocked the latest version of net neutrality regulations.

More court challenges against federal regulations based on the Supreme Court’s June ruling are in the pipeline. A conservative-led FCC under the second Trump administration was widely expected ...

A federal appeals court upheld the jury’s verdict finding Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and denied his request for a new trial. Trump challenged the $5 million civil ...

Santa Ana winds are expected to usher in dry wildfire conditions for Southern California on New Year’s Eve, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures are forecast to be in the ...