• Tue. Jun 16th, 2026

The Pulse of Southern California

Woman dies after scuba diving off Catalina Island coast

A 64-year-old woman died Saturday morning after scuba diving at a popular location off the coast of Catalina Island. The woman, identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office…

Shocking video shows toddler flying out of car in busy SoCal intersection; mom arrested

An Orange County mother has been arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment after a video went viral on social media showing her 19-month-old child flying out of a moving…

Army vet gets $6.8 million after suing LAPD over mental health hold

When two Los Angeles police officers refused to leave his apartment during a welfare check, Slade Douglas felt he had no choice but to call 911. The August 27, 2019,…

Olympic snowboarder accused of running cartel to appear in L.A. court

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who allegedly became the head of a billion-dollar drug trafficking organization, is set to plead not guilty to multiple charges against him, his…

A gunman is spotted near a grade school. O.C. residents ask why immigration agents, police gave no warning

As law enforcement and federal agents searched for an armed man in Fullerton one morning last week, students were arriving at the elementary school just around the corner. Campus officials…

Her body was found in a remote mountain town weeks ago. Now, her husband has been accused of murder

After weeks investigating the death of a Newport Beach woman whose body was found along a steep embankment in a San Bernardino County mountain town, officials have arrested her estranged…

Lockheed Martin, PG&E, Salesforce and Wells Fargo team up to battle wildfires

Lockheed Martin, PG&E Corporation, Salesforce and Wells Fargo are teaming up to help firefighters and emergency responders prevent, detect and fight wildfires more quickly. On Monday, the four companies said…

Why is Trump skipping the Super Bowl? He says it’s “too far”

The Rams won’t be the only no-shows at the Super Bowl. President Trump will be conspicuous in his absence from the biggest annual, single-day sporting event in the United States.…

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers launch strike

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii walked off the job early Monday in the latest work stoppage to roil the nation’s largest not-for-profit medical…

Commentary: Under Trump, the bootlickers have come out in force. Minneapolis cements it

President Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from…