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Authorities have identified a paddleboarder who overturned amid strong winds on Castaic Lake Sunday afternoon, prompting an ongoing search. Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the 32000 ...

The state Department of Water Resources is urging people to avoid physical contact with the water in Castaic Lake until further notice. A blue-green algae bloom has formed and can cause serious health ...

Firefights stopped the spread of a brush fire burning Tuesday afternoon in the Castaic area. The fire, estimated at about 40 acres, was not threatening structures in the hills north of Los Angeles.

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her. By Alyce McFadden I pulled off Interstate 5 and there it was ...