One Year Later: Honoring the 9 victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash

January 26, 2020, was a day that broke hearts beyond the world of sports. A year after a helicopter crash took the lives of nine California residents, including Kobe and Gianna Bryant, their legacies continue to live on. 

California lifts regional stay-at-home order, allowing more businesses to reopen

More businesses were allowed to reopen with modifications after the state lifted its regional stay-at-home order on Monday, state health officials announced. 

California resident dies after receiving COVID-19 vaccine, officials say

An investigation was underway, following the death of a person who died shortly after receiving a vaccine for the coronavirus in Placer County last week.

Landlord demands $20K in back rent from California gym or owners must leave

As a new administration promised relief, the Kovaks found a notice on the door of their Sonoma facility. It was a demand from his out-of-state landlord to pay $20,000 in back rent or vacate the premises in 72 hours.

Ghost Ship master tenant pleads guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter

Derek Almena is expected to be sentenced to 12 years in prison, but because of good behavior and time served, the 50-year-old artist and former master tenant of the Ghost Ship warehouse will not be spending any more time in custody. 

33 missing kids recovered in joint Los Angeles-based operation combatting human trafficking

Nearly three-dozen missing children have been recovered in Southern California during a recent Los Angeles-based operation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Friday.

Unemployment freeze traps valid claims in a red tape nightmare

Unemployed workers with legitimate claims have had their accounts frozen by the department, sometimes for months, as part of an anti-fraud crackdown.

Immigrant rights protests in San Jose, Sacramento and Seattle

"We want to pressure the new administration since Day One, so they don't forget about the undocumented immigrants," said one of the organizers, Gabriel Manrique. "We've been here before, the Democrats promising immigration reform, especially when Obama was president, nothing happened. So we want to start pressuring them so it happens in the first 100 days." 

Kamala Harris' buddy reminisces about bussing to school in Berkeley

Carole Porter has known Kamala Harris since the early '70s when they were neighbors and were bussed to the same school as part of the district’s effort to integrated campus across the city. 

Actor Danny Masterson pleads not guilty to raping three women

Actor Danny Masterson pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.

Heartbroken Fremont family says 12-year-old snatched by wave 'just drifted away'

The family had taken advantage of the MLK holiday's warm weather and headed off to the beach, not realizing the danger of the surf. Waves as high as 15 feet slammed the area where the 7th grader was dragged underneath the waves. 

Boy missing after surf drags him into water at Cowell Ranch State Beach

The search from air for a missing boy swept into the ocean at a San Mateo County beach Monday afternoon was called off for the night.