Regional News

3:00 PM on Sunday, August 30

Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States

9:41 AM on Sunday, August 30

Three years after Warner Bros

10:48 PM on Saturday, August 29

Volunteers rescued a climber who was stranded on a ledge in the Sierra Nevada in an operation that spanned more than 15 hours

9:05 PM on Saturday, August 29

Olivia Rodrigo is fundraising for women's well-being with a benefit show geared toward her young audience

12:27 PM on Saturday, August 29

Tom Cruise will reprise his role as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle in a follow-up to “Days of Thunder.”

10:17 AM on Saturday, August 29

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who the government says have disrupted college campuses as they expressed their views

5:22 AM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach

5:06 AM on Saturday, August 29

Mayor Robert Morris of Cave Creek, Arizona, is worried about more water shortages from the severely depleted Colorado River

3:07 AM on Saturday, August 29

Two cities have found a relatively novel way to reduce high-speed crashes by rewarding law-abiding drivers rather than just punishing the lead-footed ones

9:01 PM on Friday, August 28

Rapper Tupac Shakur has been dead for nearly 30 years, but fans say they see signs that his spirit wants justice as the trial is coming to a close for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas

12:49 PM on Friday, August 28

The Aquarium of the Pacific has taken in nearly 1,000 trafficked marine animals this summer

12:09 PM on Friday, August 28

A Virginia family with four relatives missing in the flash floods along the Nepal-China border is calling for more resources to help with rescue efforts

9:51 PM on Thursday, August 27

An increasing number of spiritual seekers are finding that artificial intelligence is giving them non-judgmental access to spiritual insights

6:36 PM on Thursday, August 27

Fire crews with water-dropping aircraft have attacked a small wildfire that prompted new evacuations along California’s remote Big Sur coast

4:37 PM on Thursday, August 27

The Tohono O’odham Nation says armed federal agents accompanied contractors who trespassed on tribal land this week as they began construction of an Arizona section of a border wall

12:35 PM on Thursday, August 27

Some Republican candidates are quietly distancing themselves from President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress

11:55 AM on Thursday, August 27

The former mayor of a small town in Alaska, who was an experienced pilot, was among those killed when a small plane crashed in shallow waters near a remote Alaskan town

11:47 AM on Thursday, August 27

UCLA is launching the nation’s first digital humanities department and bachelor’s degree this fall

10:31 AM on Thursday, August 27

Peter Cullen, the iconic voice actor behind Optimus Prime and Eeyore, has died at 85

9:07 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states