Kern Wrestles With Its Soaring Homicide Rate
Warring prison gangs are tearing parts of the Central Valley apart.
Newsom aims to ban oil drilling near neighborhoods and schools
“We don’t see oil in our future,” the governor said Thursday.
Experts Warn: Ridgecrest Quakes Could Be Contagious
“Every earthquake actually increases the probability of more earthquakes,” one geophysicist told the Los Angeles Times.
Earthquakes Roil Southland
There have been at least 3,000 aftershocks in the Searles Valley region of the Mojave Desert, according to seismologist Lucy Jones.