Daily edition

Friday, May 22, 2026

9 stories

Federal judge rules Jonathan Rinderknecht cannot blame LA City Fire Department's handling of the earlier Lachman Fire at his upcoming arson trial.

Ventura County deploys temporary air quality monitors near the old nuclear test site as the Sandy Fire smolders 20 miles north of Malibu.

135 firefighters ferried 26 miles offshore battle a blaze that has burned 18,000 acres on the Channel Islands.

Malibu's $300,000 share of state gas tax money would resurface streets including Grayfox, Boniface, Portshead, Wildlife, and parts of Selfridge.

City council to vote on using Metro sales tax money to build a tunnel beneath PCH near Malibu Seafood, alongside an existing creek underpass.

Despite $100 million in city upgrades, only a Tijuana beach scored worse on Heal the Bay's annual report card.

Hilton, Becerra and Steyer are bunched at the top of a crowded primary field with mail-in ballots still being counted.

Driver of a Ferrari 812 Competizione Aperta used the center turn lane to pass a truck and slammed into a Mercedes convertible.

Two to three feet at the Point, water temperature 64 degrees, with a minus 1.1-foot low tide at 9:32 a.m.