Students, staff and faculty told to stay inside as police search for person featured in a Crime Stoppers bulletin, a school official said

Northern California has seen its fair share of rain within the past few months. Down here in San Diego- it’s the opposite.

A nonprofit organized a flight to take dozens of dogs and cats from San Diego Humane Society’s shelter to Northern California and Oregon on Friday to clear space for pets from the Los Angeles area.

San Diego County is experiencing the driest start to the water year in recorded history, according to meteorologists, but some climatologists are hopeful that a La Nina season means rain on the horizon.

Smoke from wildfires in Los Angeles is drifting to the San Diego region, causing a dip in air quality and prompting North County fire officials to issue a smoke advisory.

Firefighting crews from Northern California are in the area this week as Santa Ana winds create risky conditions. KPBS reporter Katie Anastas says Cal Fire is warning of high winds through Thursday. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning through Thursday for San Diego County’s mountains and valleys.

California saw the first tornado of 2025 reported in the United States, after a whirlwind made landfall Friday evening in an unpopulated area of Tehama County, the National Weather Service said in a Saturday morning news release.

Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

By John Yoon A winter storm in Northern California spawned a tornado ... shared a video captured by the University of California, San Diego, of a tornado passing a grassy area.

The strongest Santa Ana winds of the season could bring a fire threat this week to Southern California, which hasn’t seen significant rain for nearly nine months.

In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in the region. That’s extremely low.

The designation of the Chuckwalla National Monument in the southern California desert and the Sattitla Highlands National Monument near the state's northern border comes a day after Biden protected nearly every U.