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Powerful winds blow down trees in multiple SoCal neighborhoods
Powerful winds blew down a large tree in Simi Valley causing damage to a house and part of the sidewalk Tuesday morning.
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Amy Maetzold is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She started her journalism career in Wisconsin where she was a producer at NBC15 and Spectrum News 1. Before coming to KCAL, Amy covered news in Santa Barbara at KEYT, winning a group Emmy Award for team coverage on the Alisal Fire.
Powerful winds blew down a large tree in Simi Valley causing damage to a house and part of the sidewalk Tuesday morning.
Gusty Santa Ana winds will be blowing through the Southland on Thursday prompting hazardous driving conditions and causing power outages from downed powerlines.
A landslide destroyed a home and three other residences were damaged in Sherman Oaks early Wednesday.
Hundreds of parents rushed to pick up their children from Taft High School in Woodland Hills after a threat to "shoot up the school" circulated online on Tuesday.
An investigation is underway after a person was found dead inside a van near the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday.
A man lying underneath a parked car was killed when the owner of the vehicle ran over him in Northridge.
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a 2.5-mile-long oil slick discovered off the coast of Huntington Beach.
An investigation is underway after a man was found shot to death in the middle of the street outside a gated community in Tarzana.
Chatsworth High School was briefly placed on lockdown after shots were reported near campus.
Authorities arrested the suspect involved in a shooting that left one man injured on 60 Freeway in the City of Industry Thursday morning.
California Highway Patrol are in pursuit of an allegedly stolen box truck on the 101 Freeway in Camarillo.
A statewide ballot measure that would overhaul California's mental health care system, primarily through the issuance of nearly $6.4 billion in bonds, remained too close to call as ballot- counting continued from Tuesday's election.
The fire started around 10:30 p.m. in the 200 block of E Colonia Road, according to the Oxnard Fire Department.
One of the most consequential state measures on the 2024 ballot, if passed, proposition 1 would redirect billions in homeless crisis funding to create drug and mental health treatment beds. While Governor Newsom is throwing his full support behind it, there is also vocal opposition.
A man was hospitalized after being shot with a crossbow in his shoulder near Dodger Stadium in Echo Park Tuesday morning.