California

Several Dead in Fiery Plane Crash on California Neighborhood

Several people were killed when a small plane crashed in a California neighborhood before dawn Thursday, destroying a home and setting more than a dozen cars on fire. At least 10 houses were hit by debris and vehicles on both sides of a street went up in flames when the Cessna 550 slammed into the ground, spewing burning jet fuel in a part of San ...

Death Toll From Los Angeles Fires Rises, with Dangerous Winds Incoming

Firefighters were battling massive wildfires Monday that have ravaged Los Angeles and killed at least 24 people, with officials warning of incoming dangerous winds that could whip up the blazes further. The fires ripped through the United States' second-largest city for the seventh day, reducing whole communities to scorched rubble and ...

Tsunami Warning After 7.0 Quake Off California Coast

A powerful earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of northern California, sparking a tsunami warning, US seismologists said. The 7.0-magnitude quake was recorded at a depth of just 10 kilometers (six miles), almost 100 kilometers west-southwest of Ferndale, according to the United States Geological Survey. "Based on preliminary earthquake ...