A California woman tired of packages being stolen from her post office mailbox mailed herself an Apple AirTag to track the thieves.

In response to a nationwide crisis that has left more than 650,000 people without housing, 100 tiny home villages for the homeless have opened in the United States over the past five years.

A Pacific storm that pounded coastal areas northwest of Los Angeles has pushed through San Diego to the deserts on its way into Arizona.

A Pacific storm has pounded parts of Southern California with heavy rain and street flooding, adding to hassles as holiday travel gets underway.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Santa Barbara News-Press, one of California’s oldest newspapers, has ceased publishing after its owner declared the 150-year-old publication bankrupt.

U.S. federal lawmakers have changed 19th-century maritime liability rules for accident victims and their families in response to the 2019 boat fire off the coast of Southern California that killed 34 people.

As the all-out search for a missing hiker in Southern California continued Wednesday, family members here in South Florida began a cross-country journey in hopes of aiding efforts to find the man, who graduated from a local high school before moving west.

Firefighters have made significant progress in corralling a wildfire in coastal mountains of Southern California.

A key Southern California highway closed for days because of a wildfire was reopened Thursday evening but authorities warned that flames still posed a threat to remote properties in a coastal mountain range.

The weekend oil leak along the Southern California coast happened not far from the site of the catastrophe more than a generation ago that helped give rise to the modern environmental movement itself: the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.

The “Mad Max Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa” isn’t speeding into theaters anytime soon.

The NTSB also faulted the Coast Guard for not enforcing that requirement and recommended it develop a program to ensure boats with overnight passengers actually have the watchman. Last year’s tragedy during a Labor Day weekend scuba diving excursion near Santa Cruz Island off Santa Barbara prompted criminal and safety investigations. Before the disaster, Boylan and Truth Aquatics enjoyed a good reputation with customers and the Santa Barbara boating community. Attorneys for Boylan and Truth Aquatics did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The families of 32 victims have filed claims against the boat owners, Glen and Dana Fritzler, and Truth Aquatics.

Brent Lewin/Getty ImagesSANTA BARBARA, California (CNN) - Little Mac, Santa Barbara Zoo's last elephant, has been euthanized after a series of health issues, the zoo said. After two weeks of a sharp decline in her health, the zoo decided to enter Little Mac into hospice care several days before her death. Dr. Julie Barnes, the zoo's director of animal care and health, said in a press statement before Little Mac's death. Melinda Morgan-Stowell, a guest service manager at the zoo, told CNN Saturday that Little Mac was the last elephant the zoo will ever have. Current regulations require far more room than the zoo has, so the zoo's elephant program and exhibit will be permanently closed, she said.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Longtime NBC and ABC television news correspondent Sander Vanocur has died at the age of 91, the Associated Press reports. Vanocur was on the panel at the first presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, and went on to cover the Kennedy administration as a White House correspondent for NBC News. Vanocur left NBC in 1971 and worked for PBS and the Washington Post. He was a correspondent for ABC News from 1977 to 1991, where he moderated the 1984 vice presidential debate between George H.W. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Longtime NBC and ABC television news correspondent Sander Vanocur has died at the age of 91, the Associated Press reports. Vanocur was on the panel at the first presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, and went on to cover the Kennedy administration as a White House correspondent for NBC News. Vanocur left NBC in 1971 and worked for PBS and the Washington Post. He was a correspondent for ABC News from 1977 to 1991, where he moderated the 1984 vice presidential debate between George H.W. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The captain of the sister ship to the one that caught fire off the coast of Santa Barbara, killing at least 25, is sticking up for its crew. Ian Higgins is the captain of the Vision, a sister ship nearly identical to the Conception, which caught fire near Santa Cruz island Monday morning. "That vessel is inspected by the Coast Guard annually and also every five years for a more complete inspection," said Higgins, who works for Truth Aquatics. RELATED: 20 bodies recovered from boat fire off coast of Southern California, officials sayRecords show the Conception had no issues after a Coast Guard inspection in February. He said passengers are given safety briefings the morning after they get on the ship.