Sharon McNary

Two Congressional races in California saw huge spending by Super PACs, inundating voters with mailers, TV ads and phone calls. Who's spending and why?

The organization that received a film permit to make the controversial movie “Innocence of Muslims” was Duarte-based nonprofit Media for Christ.

A man who identified himself as Sam Bacile says he made the film. The Associated Press found Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who has used an alias that resembles Bacile.

The Santa Monica City Council plans to debate a free speech issue Tuesday night. It’s about the ads on the sides of the city’s Big Blue Buses.

This is the 19th year Los Angeles County has leased the larger water-dropping planes.

New city manager says "everything's not rosy" but the city has the advantage of having workers' pension and health care costs covered by longstanding parcel tax.

During an earthquake swarm that brought power outages and knocked trailer homes off foundations, a reporter scours Brawley to document damage.

He also called the NASA JPL space program, "The moral equivalent of war," because its existence stimulated American advances in science, engineering and productivity in the same way that World War II did in California.

The U.S. Forest service will resume night firefighting flights by water-dropping helicopters in Southern California, the first since 1983.

Director Jay Roach mines real-life political drama — sexting, attack ads, shotgun accidents, etc. — in his new comedy with Will Ferrell versus Zach Galifianakis.

An appeals court has overturned the 2004 criminal conviction of former mayor Omar Bradley for the misuse of public funds.

San Bernardino City Council tells city staff to defer paying big bills to free up $12 million for payroll, retirement costs.