AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was found guilty of using excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

Another 23,000 people were under evacuation warnings after the Hughes Fire erupted at 10:53 a.m. Wednesday near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna ...

Robert Jensen of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department urged everyone in the fire-affected area to leave immediately and not suffer the same fate as some in the devastating fires that hit ...

LOS ANGELES -- A brush ... the Hughes Fire on Wednesday. Sheriff's officials said 476 inmates were evacuated to North County Correctional Facility for safety. No injuries have been reported ...

Some 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders and another 23,000 face evacuation warnings, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told a press conference. The Angeles National Forest ...

Four days after airborne contamination from wildfire smoke prompted the closure of its Altadena station, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday the facility is once again fully ...

The fire began threatening some communities just west of Castaic in Ventura County later on Wednesday. But on Thursday, no mandatory ... Fire started, the Los Angeles sheriff said at the time.

Dozens of arrests have been made for looting at evacuated homes. Two people from Oregon were arrested for posing as firefighters in the Pacific Palisades area, according to the Los Angeles County ...

Making matters worse, nearly all of Southern California is in severe drought and no rain is in the ... order or warning in Los Angeles County on Saturday, the sheriff’s department said.