LOS ANGELES — After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years.

The data, collected by the U.S. Drought Monitor, are a welcome nugget of news for Golden State residents, who in the last 15 years alone...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A rider stuck on a stalled Disneyland Monorail climbed on the roof of the train before firefighters arrived to evacuate the ride that had been stalled on the track for more than an hour, according to social media posts.

About 60 people were evacuated by ladder from the Disneyland Monorail Thursday evening after a technical ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and its state-funded programs are heading into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget chief warned Friday that surging revenues tied to the artificial intelligence boom are being offset by rising costs and federal funding ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal immigration judge on Friday denied bond for an Eastern Shore woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December, keeping her detained as deportation proceedings move forward, her attorney said.

Vanessa Parrazal, 24, has been in federal immigration custody since Dec. 17 and is currently held at the ...Read more

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday determined Colorado cannot order the closure of coal-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, and, therefore, the agency will deny the state’s plan to reduce the haze that clouds views at Rocky Mountain National Park and other federal lands.

The move is part of the Trump ...Read more

Some of the celebrities and high-powered executives who gathered at Conan O’Brien's annual holiday party on Dec. 13 are likely to be called to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Nick Reiner, especially if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity in the fatal stabbing of his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. ...Read more

MIAMI — An Italian filmmaker who gunned down an Australian hotelier on Miami’s Virginia Key in the '90s can now leave prison to make pizzas and windsurf in Italy, thanks to the Italian judicial system and the U.S. push to return him to his native country to serve out his life sentence.

The Italian courts recently granted work release to ...Read more

DETROIT — Planning is underway for a potential visit by President Donald Trump to Michigan on Tuesday, according to four sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes preparations.

The sources requested to speak on the condition of anonymity because the plans weren't finalized as of Friday afternoon and because they weren't authorized to ...Read more

Calling a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling a “straightforward path” to a legal victory, lawyers for the state of Illinois said Friday they hope to quickly resolving ongoing litigation over President Donald Trump’s controversial efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area to bolster immigration enforcement.

The status ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is revisiting a decision by his predecessor to let ex-City Hall adviser Tim Pearson get taxpayer-funded legal representation against four lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment and professional retaliation.

As reported by the Daily News earlier this week, Pearson, who served as a top ...Read more

BOSTON — The nightmare in the Round Hill neighborhood of Sagamore has begun.

As of Friday, the state officially seized ownership of most of the 14 homes there by eminent domain for the $4.5 billion MassDOT project to replace the Cape Cod bridges.

“Here I am at this age in my life, and I have to start all over again? How do you even do that...Read more

U.S. State Department officials, including the interim U.S. ambassador to Colombia, John T. McNamara, traveled to Venezuela on Friday for the first time since strongman Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in his residence in Caracas, as Washington weighs reopening its embassy in Caracas after nearly six years.

The visit reflects the ...Read more

BOSTON — The circulating bird flu has been confirmed in the Bay State, as agricultural officials report that backyard chickens tested positive for the disease and were killed.

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and its partner agencies “safely depopulated and disposed” of a backyard flock of chickens due to the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and its state-funded programs are heading into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget chief warned Friday that surging revenues tied to the artificial intelligence boom are being offset by rising costs and federal funding...Read more

BARTOW, Fla. — The state of Florida announced Friday that its testing has uncovered a variety of toxins at amounts above federal standards in 16 infant formulas on the market. But officials during a news event in Bartow led by Gov. Ron DeSantis did not share specific testing data, methodology or contaminant levels found in each brand.

The ...Read more

BOSTON — Freshly sprung from jail, ex-Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is spinning a twisted tale of treachery and deceit that she says left Brian Worrell and the Black community on the losing end of this week’s vote for City Council president.

Fernandes Anderson, who resigned last year after being convicted on federal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alpha News on Friday published what appeared to be video recorded by ICE agent Jonathan Ross during the deadly shooting of Renee Good on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

The 48-second video, posted by the Minnesota-based conservative outlet, begins with Ross exiting his vehicle and approaching Good as she sits behind the wheel of her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers sought to ensure the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein this week, after the Justice Department last month blew through a statutory deadline for the production of documents about the deceased sex offender.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., main backers of the Epstein Files Transparency ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s top prosecutors moved Friday to preserve a state role in reviewing the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, repeatedly emphasizing their actions were not a challenge to federal authorities but a response to being cut off from evidence they say is essential for transparency.

Hennepin County...Read more