CAMARILLO, Calif. — With one word, Decker jumped from boulder to boulder, sniffing around fallen trees and pieces of debris as he climbed over a mud-soaked bank in Montecito.
“Search.”
As rescue efforts continued following Tuesday’s mudslide, the 7-year-old dog searched for any survivors still trapped in wreckage from the massive...
At least 19 people have died from the mudslides that swept over parts over Southern California early this week -- impacting the same area that was ravaged in December by the Thomas Fire, the state’s largest wildfire on record that is 100% contained, the U.S. Forest Service announced Friday.
Many...
Over the next few months, with the implementation of a revised strategy, Facebook’s two billion users will see less content produced by news organizations and more from their friends, if all goes according to the company’s plan. So what does that mean for the media companies that have come...
Waving signs heralding free speech and chanting "Stand by Deyshia," about 100 people gathered in a light rain Thursday to rally to support Deyshia Hargrave — the Louisiana teacher ejected from a school board meeting and roughly handcuffed in a video-recorded arrest after she questioned her superintendent's pay raise.
Hargrave,...
The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves were possible for several countries in the Caribbean and Central America, as well as Mexico, after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck 27 miles (43 kilometers) off the coast of Honduras.
"Tsunami waves reaching 0.3 to 1 meters above the tide level are...
MONTECITO, Calif. — Chaos swept across California's Santa Barbara County on Tuesday after a powerful overnight storm hammered the region with heavy rains, leading to the deaths of at least 13 people — and a dramatic rescue of a girl pinned by debris, authorities said.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill...
Sam Safa is $75,000 richer today, and someone who recently ventured into his modest convenience store in Merrimack, N.H., is $560 million richer after winning the sixth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
More than $1 billion in jackpots could be claimed as soon as Monday after Mega Millions and Powerball each had...
NEW YORK —
The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke cold temperature records from Maine to West Virginia and stunned sea turtles in Florida — although a warm-up is coming Monday.
Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine set records, with Burlington falling to minus 20, beating...
SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government tonight (Jan. 8), successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Jan. 9) from Cape Canaveral...
State geologists studying the landslide risks at the Rattlesnake Ridge area estimate an "event" will occur between January 14 and February 28.
State geologists studying the landslide risks at the Rattlesnake Ridge area in Yakima County estimate an "event" could occur as early as next Sunday.
"Based on monitoring data, geologists...
