Obesity is no longer just a major public health problem.

The Hathaway Fire east of Banning was 80 percent contained today, having scorched about 3,800 acres, the…

Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit alleging that immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep a…

A state legislative committee has approved a bill that would require California's health insurance excha…

Attorneys who represent California inmates are asking a federal judge to expand the court's oversight of…

Electric Daisy Carnival organizers said Wednesday that all 345,000 available tickets have been sold for …

The federal government is spending less and less on preventing wildfires even as the nation endures incr…

A 61-year-old Thermal contractor accused of repeatedly molesting a young female relative was ordered tod…

Top amateur players in the Humana Challenge will be able to play in the golf tournament's final round fo…

Southern California authorities say it's a dirty business and a bizarre trend - drug users trading Tide …

Former Palm Springs resident Walter Lee Williams was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, one day after being a…

The Riverside County Coroner has identified a woman who died in a two-car crash in Rancho Mirage Tuesday…

Riverside County supervisors have authorized spending an additional $105,000 to dispose the remaining tr…

The ban on illegal pot shops continues in Palm Springs. The city's cracking down on medicinal marijuana …

Teens in Cathedral City swing into summer vacation with some new top-of-the-line technology.

Riverside County supervisors today authorized the payment of $100,000 -- to be split three ways -- to pe…

More than 400 film makers from all around the world come to share their stories at ShortFest in Palm Spr…

Aetna Inc. has notified state regulators that it will stop selling individual health insurance policies …

A man found dead near the Banning campus of Mt. San Jacinto College was identified Tuesday as a Palm Spr…

A 17-year-old Indio boy got distracted by a text message and crashed into a parked car in La Quinta toda…

About 85 percent of an extensive dune system near the U.S.-Mexico border would be open to off-road vehic…

A developer is seeking federal approval for air space for a 650-foot-tall roller coaster on the Las Vega…

Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship broke out across this …

The parents of a man who died when his car burst into flames during a Border Patrol chase in San Diego C…

More than 300 films will be screened at the 19th annual festival, which runs through June 24 at Camelot …

Riverside County supervisors today tentatively approved a "fragile" $4.7 billion budget for fiscal year …

Los Angeles may be joining the battle against the bag.