A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and a commercial strip mall.

Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency in several Californian counties due to severe weather risks, such as flooding and landslides, aiming to mobilize resources for response efforts.

California officials and weather forecasters urged holiday travelers to avoid the roads on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ahead of a series of powerful winter storms that threatened to slam the state with relentless rains, heavy winds and mountain snow through Friday.

Shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday, an EF-1 tornado was registered in a town in Toulumne County, as confirmed by the National Weather Service (NWS), in Sacramento. The event was one of 11 tornadoes that occur annually on average in California. Tornadoes in the ...

An atmospheric river, low pressure system and wildfire burn scars are a volatile mix for southern California this Christmas. Here's what we know.

A freeway that usually stays busy in Los Angeles was forced to close down on Christmas eve as heavy rains, and flash flood and tornado warnings rocked Southern California.

Storm-hit Southern California was ‌at ​risk on Friday of more ‌floods hampering millions of motorists traveling after Christmas, but the National ​Weather Service predicts a drier weekend. The holiday deluge that started in earnest on Christmas Eve was ‍spawned by the region's latest ​atmospheric storm,