Alex Wigglesworth is a reporter who covers the Inland Empire and Mojave Desert communities for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the newsroom in 2016, she was a general assignment reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. A Philadelphia native, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in medical anthropology and global health. She currently lives in the Mojave Desert.
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Southern California’s swampy summer continues to set records, with humidity levels creating conditions that feel more like Florida than the West Coast.
Wednesday is forecast to be the hottest day of Southern California’s worst heat wave of the summer. But some relief is in sight.
Until this week, Southern California’s summer temperatures had actually been “pretty typical,” according to the National Weather Service. So why has it felt so oppressive?
Dos adolescentes fallecieron cuando dos vehículos que circulaban a gran velocidad le partieron el coche por la mitad en un cruce de Victorville, según informaron las autoridades. La Patrulla de Carreteras de California (CHP) está investigando si los coches que los atropellaron estaban compitiendo en una carrera.
Authorities say they have recovered nearly $30,000 in McLaren F1 Lego sets from an abandoned van in Newberry Springs in San Bernardino County.
Two teenagers were killed when a pair of speeding vehicles cleaved their car in half at a Victorville intersection, authorities said. The CHP is investigating whether the cars that struck them were racing.
Someone has, on multiple occasions, slipped into a residents-only beach in Incline Village, drilled holes in the roots of trees and poured a chemical inside, killing at least 10 pines, some over a century old.
The operator of a cold storage warehouse that burned in Boyle Heights has said it expects to spend $80 million to $100 million to clean up the site.
Some relief is in store for Southern California’s coastal areas, with slightly cooler conditions expected this week.
A major new heat wave will peak in Southern California over the next few days, bringing dangerous conditions and fire dangers.