Laura J. Nelson

The camera pans over framed photographs of five little boys with crew cuts, wide smiles and button-down shirts, as Orange County congressional candidate Scott Baugh says: “There were five brothers. One had his struggles. I miss him, every day.” “Addiction […]

The U.S. Senate has been described as a “millionaire’s club,” and the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was among its wealthiest members. Some of the San Francisco Democrat’s jewelry, art and political memorabilia will be auctioned next month at Bonhams

The record-breaking heat wave pummeling Southern California will continue through the weekend, delivering a miserable combination of triple-digit highs and unrelenting overnight heat. The National Weather Service in Oxnard said Saturday morning that “dangerously hot conditions” will continue in the

At a solemn reunion in Orange County, dozens of elderly Vietnamese Americans gathered recently to reconnect with others once held at Suối Máu, a camp where dissidents and American allies were imprisoned after the fall of Saigon. In the sea

When the federal government closed Castle Air Force Base in Merced County in the 1990s, the dilapidated buildings and vast expanse of aging tarmac left behind seemed more like a liability than an opportunity. But by 2018, the old runways