Glen Eden's 159 acres of pools, palms, pickleball courts, and RV hookups fall midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, walled in by a ridge of bony hills to the west and a strategically placed berm to the east.
"Every year about this time, females are coming back from their open ocean migrations to give birth somewhere in Southern California, and then those baby white sharks show up at our beaches. What made this year unusual is that we started seeing newborns in February, which is really early. Normally, it starts in April and peaks in July."
A Hogwarts Express Adventure will include a Platform 9¾- themed preboarding experience as well as House competitions and chants, spell-casting challenges and other interactive activities aboard the train.
Laguna Beach takes its history and cultural heritage seriously—from the earliest Western settlers who set up artist studios, to our Indigenous peoples who made this special place home thousands of years ago.
Eight individuals were arrested and 15 charged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $50 million by running sham hospice facilities across Southern California. Federal officials described the actions as brazen efforts to commit fraud, with many billed patients not being terminally ill.
Goldenvoice has announced its annual lineup of Coachella sideshows, "Goldenvoice Presents April," that have festival artists performing at various more intimate venues throughout Southern California in the days surrounding both weekends. This year's lineup includes: Tickets go on sale over the course of two weeks, starting on Friday, February 20 at 12 PM PT. See the full lineup below. GOLDENVOICE PRESENTS APRIL: 2026 LINEUP
Situated on the southern border of Orange County and easily accessible to travelers by Amtrak train or car, San Clemente has all the charm of a close-knit community and all the liveliness of a surfer's paradise. Plus, it's one of the most beautiful towns in the area, with the rolling San Joaquin Hills on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other.
A powerful storm system arrives Sunday with heavy rain, thunderstorms and dangerous waves, posing threats of flooding and debris flows through early next week. The strongest impacts hit late Sunday through Monday, with 1-2 inches of rain expected in valleys and coasts, twice as much in mountains. High-surf advisory expected Monday through Thursday, with waves exceeding 10 feet across all Southern California beaches and a 20-30% chance of damaging sets midweek.
She's set to call Thrushcross Grange home in the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, but Margot Robbie's IRL coastal California home (and Australian getaway!) is just as breathtaking as the two grand homes featured in Emily Brontë's classic novel. The Australian-born actress now lives full-time in Southern California, and within the past decade, she has bought and renovated three homes with her husband, Tom Ackerley, in the Venice and Los Angeles area. Below, a full look at all the homes that 35-year-old Robbie has owned since her rise to international fame in the early 2010s.
First came the heavy winter rains that soaked the soil. Then, the sunny weather not too hot, but just warm enough to fuel the growth. A few more winter rainfalls and Southern California could be ripe for an epic wildflower season in the coming weeks and months. And when they bloom the vibrant colors popping from rolling hills as far as the eye can see thousands of people are bound to seek out their beauty, if past years are any indication.
Junior Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian has upped her scoring average this season. She's No. 2 in the state with an average of 32.8 points a game. Virtually any college team in the country would welcome her with open arms. There's others making an impact in the scoring department this season, according to stats posted on MaxPreps.com. Aryanna Reyes of Whittier Pioneer is at 30.1 points for 14 games. Leqi Zhen of L.A. Lincoln is averaging 28.9 points in 10 games.
After weeks of persistent rain, Southern California's drizzle ends Tuesday, ushering in dry conditions and warmer temperatures for the coming weeks. Southern California has experienced record rainfall since October, with downtown Los Angeles already receiving 14.11 inches - nearly 10 inches above normal for the period. Santa Ana winds are expected this weekend, but fire danger remains low because the region's soils are saturated from recent storms.
Southern California is in for an intense douse of heavy rainfall, strong winds and major snow over the Christmas holiday, a combination that forecasters say has the potential for life-threatening flooding and mudslides, among other risks. The excessive rainfall also has the potential to raise the dangers associated with flash flooding, according to the National Weather Service. "These [high-risk] days correspond to about two out of every five flood-related fatalities and a significant majority of all flood-related property losses in the contiguous United States,"
The FBI and multiple Los Angeles law enforcement agencies held a joint press conference Monday to announce that they'd disrupted a Southern California bomb plot planned for New Year's Eve, according to PBS. Four suspects were allegedly testing their bombs in San Bernardino County this past Friday, as seen below in FBI surveillance footage, and SFGate reports they were planning to detonate the bombs in at least five different Southern California locations on New Year's Eve.
Southern California is a great place to slurp ramen, according to Yelp, which released its list of Top 100 Ramen Shops for 2025 on Thursday, Dec. 11. Four Los Angeles County eateries made it into the top 20. Bincho in Tarzana tops the list. It opened in 2024 in space formerly occupied by Keitaro's Kitchen, a Japanese restaurant with the same chef, Toshiro Tagami. The results are based on Yelp data, which include the number of reviews and the ratings that reviewers give them.
Angel's Tijuana Tacos recently introduced its own breakfast burrito, prompting me to make a beeline to its Anaheim location one morning. A staple of SoCal cuisine, I ordered my A.M.-hour beast with a duo of bacon and chorizo, delivering a salty, smoky and slightly spicy bite. The eggs were fluffy, lacking any of the rubbery slop that besmirches lesser breakfast burritos.
In Orange County, a possible tornado or waterspout moved ashore around 10:15 p.m. Thursday in the eastern Dana Point Harbor, a witness reported to the National Weather Service. The wind "lofted a 12-foot segment of chain link fence with privacy fabric and threw it 70 feet across parking lot," the weather service said. There were numerous calls of flooding in the city of Westminster, police said, where an astonishing 1.84 inches of rain fell in a single hour,
For Michael Carrozzo, leadership isn't about titles or recognition, It's about showing up every day with purpose. "You don't wait for opportunity," he says. "You create it through consistency." From growing up in Southern California to serving as a Major in the U.S. Army, Carrozzo's story is about discipline, adaptability, and staying true to what matters. His approach to life blends focus and humility, forged through years of service and strengthened by hobbies that keep him grounded.
Finding one can be fatal, whether she's in the mood or not. Females are known to snack on their suitors. "If the female is not receptive, you better run," said Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas, assistant curator of entomology for the Natural History Museum of L.A. County. "Even if the female is receptive and they mate - after they mate, the male needs to be really fast and sneaky because otherwise the female can also eat the male as well."
The storm dumped inches of rain on the San Bernardino County mountains and foothills and unleashed a torrent of mud, rocks and trees, particularly in burn scars near Oak Glen and Forest Falls. In the end, three homes were destroyed and more than a dozen other homes, businesses and outbuildings were damaged, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District.
