Ventura County

The body of “Glee” actress and singer Naya Rivera was discovered at Lake Piru in Ventura County on Monday morning after days of searching, officials concluded. The discovery came amid an extensive search for the missing “Glee” star that included sonar, dogs and divers scouring the lake, in addition to cabins and outbuildings in the surrounding area being searched. Rivera…

The death of “Glee” actress and singer Naya Rivera was ruled an accidental drowning, it was announced Tuesday.

Police in Burbank said the women seen in a cache of photographs discovered during a search of an accused serial killer’s home could be important clues in the man’s upcoming murder trial.

Hundreds of goats trotted out of a truck Tuesday and bounded into the hillside surrounding the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley to do what they do best — eat.

A law enforcement official says investigators that examined the burned-out wreckage of a scuba diving boat haven’t been able to determine what ignited a fire that killed 34 people off the California coast, the Associated Press reported Friday.

A middle-of-the-night fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast early Monday, leaving at least 25 dead and nine others missing. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Matthew Kroll said Monday night that 25 people had died. Five of six crew members on the Conception escaped by jumping into an inflatable boat they...

Heather Locklear has pleaded no contest to charges that she fought with first responders during two visits to her Southern California home last year. Locklear entered the plea in Ventura County court Friday afternoon to five counts of battery on a peace officer, one count of battery on emergency personnel and two counts of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace...

The carcass of a massive gray whale washed ashore in Malibu early Sunday morning, stunning beachgoers who said the decaying body gave off a strong odor.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pushed back Friday on a U.S. judge’s revised proposals to prevent the utility’s equipment from causing more wildfires, saying it could not “monitor every tree at every moment of every day” to ensure they don’t pose a threat to its electric lines in violation of California laws.

A man wanted in connection with a Los Angeles-area rape died Wednesday at the end of a pursuit in Ventura County after authorities say he consumed a lethal mixture while driving on a freeway.

The largest wildfire on record in California is 100-percent contained more than a month after it began in the hills of Ventura County, according to Los Padres National Forest officials.

All evacuation orders related to the Thomas fire in Santa Barbara County were lifted Thursday, more than two weeks after the wildfire started in Ventura County and grew into one of the state’s largest blazes on record.

Some firefighters from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and New York are heading to California to assist with fighting wildfires.

Actor Rob Lowe offered firefighters battling the destructive Thomas Fire in Southern California a home-cooked meal, posting on Instagram this week a photo of the gathering of his “new friends.” The blaze has been blamed for two deaths, destroyed at least 750 homes and charred at least 272,000 acres to become the second largest wildfire in modern state history. Lowe...

The Republican tax overhaul that passed Congress Wednesday should offer a tax windfall to dozens of lawmakers, CNBC reported. President Donald Trump would also benefit from the bill, which gives favorable treatment to a common form of real estate income. According to an analysis of federal financial disclosures conducted for CNBC by the Center for Responsive Politics, roughly four dozen...

Firefighters kept a wall of flames from descending mountains into coastal neighborhoods after a huge and destructive Southern California wildfire exploded in size, becoming the fifth largest in state history.