The shooting that killed six people and injured 12 in downtown Sacramento, California on Sunday has prompted California officials, city leaders and activists to renew calls for new legislation to target call violence.

A man shoot and kill his three children and their chaperone before killing himself in a gun violence at a church in Sacramento, California, on Monday.

A heatwave was bringing unseasonably high temperatures to California on Thursday, sparking a bushfire.

Thieves break into freight trains on Los Angeles's railways on a daily basis in the aftermath of the US economy crippled by the coronavirus crisis.

Bodycam footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows the "chaotic" police shooting of a teenager in a California department store.

A 70-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in California has been shut down due extreme winter weather, with forecasters warning that travel could be difficult for the next few days.

Four children, including an infant, and their grandmother were found shot to death in a Southern California home and the children's father was arrested on suspicion of killing them, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.