A man armed with a machete was fatally shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in Paramount. The LA County Sheriff's Department said the shooting took place around 12:15 a.m. on the 15000 block of Paramount Boulevard in the parking lot of the Paramount sheriff's station.

The LA County Sheriff’s Department is commending two deputies for their heroic efforts to save multiple senior citizens from the Eaton fire.

In addition to helping Altadena residents evacuate, deputies also grabbed weapons and equipment from their station.

A newly released body camera video shows the moment a 100-year-old woman was rescued as flames from the Eaton Fire approached a senior living apartment complex in Altadena, California, earlier this month.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is working to locate and identify dozens of missing persons from the wildfires.

Cleanup efforts are underway across Los Angeles County as residents pick up the pieces after three weeks of nonstop fires.

Daniella Segura is a national real-time reporter with McClatchy. Previously, she’s worked as a multimedia journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in the Los Angeles area. Her work has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association. She is also an alumnus of the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley.

Police officers in California improperly accessed a state database of private information more than 7,000 times in 2023, according to a new report by the

The Hughes Fire has now burned 8,096 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties since igniting late Wednesday morning near Castaic Lake, according to Cal Fire. More than 24,00 people have been ordered to evacuate due to the Hughes Fire. Another 30,000 people are in evacuation warning zones.

Rescuers searched for the 35 year old man as a winter storm bore down on Southern California.

Two days after a snowboarder went missing at a California mountain ski resort as a storm rolled in, he has been found, rescuers say. The 35-year-old man was last seen at Mountain High Resort in the San Gabriel Mountains on Sunday, Jan. 26, at about 1:30 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department launched a Looter Suppression Team for the Altadena area scorched by the Eaton fire.