These fears are what the Health Insurance Assistance Program (HIAP) at Clinica Sierra Vista confronts daily and aims to solve. Given that Medi-Cal is currently facing major cuts and undocumented ...

Thirty years ago, Jim O’Hara Jr. woke up from a coma, unable to walk, talk or eat. An 18-wheeler had broadsided his car, ...

A San Fernando Valley couple says an Uber driver stole the husband's identity to sign up for the ride-sharing platform, raising questions about public safety and how thoroughly drivers are vetted.

A diver off the coast of Southern California has documented repeated close encounters with a curious white harbor seal over recent months. The interactions, filmed during free dives near Laguna Beach ...

California’s Central Valley has spent the past several weeks buried under a thick, unmoving layer of tule fog — the dense, ground‑hugging haze that can turn I‑5 and Highway 99 into walls of white with ...

In recent weeks California's Central Valley has been blanketed with a thick dense fog known as tule (TOO-lee) fog, causing massive vehicle pileups along Interstate-5 along Highway CA-99. It's a type ...

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Shari Horne didn’t have high hopes when her aunt arranged a blind date for her in 1998. But Shari and her date, Hal, ended up falling in love. Now, more than 25 years after they vowed to be there for ...

People watch smoke rise from the Port of La Guaira after explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard on Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela. A U.S. military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolas ...

As the calendar winds down toward 2026, students and staff across the Coachella Valley are counting down to winter break. But before that last stretch gave way to the holiday break, schools across the ...

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