Lawmakers are tussling over the Obama administration's plans to create a small army of assistants to guide millions of Americans, as they sign up for new health-insurance options available this fall.

Large tornadoes swept through towns just south of Oklahoma City, killing at least 51 people—including 20 children—and laying waste to numerous buildings, including more than one elementary school.

The first phases of a new General Plan for Ventura have begun.

The IRS briefed the Treasury Department extensively last month about a looming report that would find the agency had inappropriately targeted applications from conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Apple paid no corporate income tax to any nation on tens of billions of dollars in income over the past four years, Senate investigators disclosed ahead of a hearing on Tuesday.

Crews worked to clean up some 2,500 barrels of crude that spilled over the weekend at an oil-storage terminal in Cushing, Okla., the third-biggest crude spill seen in the U.S. this year.

The survey of likely voters finds that non-Latino whites make up 32% of the city's population but are likely to total 51% of the vote. Latinos make up 44% of the population, but many are ineligible to vote.

Tuesday's elections will sweep in new leadership for Los Angeles' 3.8 million residents, but the races are likely to be decided by an older, whiter and more educated fraction of the city's population.

Los Angeles is about to elect either its first woman or its first Jew as mayor, but the milestone seems to have done little to excite voters.

To honor her late husband, Nancy Israel hosted "Notes to Remember — A Bill Israel Memorial Recital" to benefit the New West Symphony on Sunday in Simi Valley.

Hundreds of visitors celebrated the 110th anniversary of the Santa Susana Railroad Depot and Museum with an open house, tours and a display of vintage Model A and Model T cars.

Island foxes - on the verge of extinction 12 years ago - have rebounded almost to levels from before the crisis.

President Barack Obama struck a balance after meeting Myanmar President Thein Sein in Washington, praising progress in the long-isolated Asian nation, while calling for more.

Dr. Barry Lefkovitch says the lawyers at he sex assault trial provided ineffective counsel and that he wants a new trial.

Ventura County Medi-Cal commissioners support an agreement that will allow Kaiser doctors to keep seeing low-income kids from the area.

Ventura County Medi-Cal commissioners support an agreement that will allow Kaiser doctors to keep seeing low-income kids from the area.

Gold-medal Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps addresses rumors that he'll come out of retirement to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

A man who fell asleep while driving and caused an accident that killed a 45-year-old Oxnard woman was sentenced to four months in jail Monday.

Medical authorities in Arizona are asking for the public's help in identifying family members of a man who may be from Oxnard.

Three Chinese nationals working at New York University Langone Medical Center were charged with secretly sharing information about their MRI research with a Chinese medical-imaging company.

A Brookings Institution book on suburban poverty published Monday depicts a surge in the numbers of suburban poor in the last decade. In Ventura County, though, it's a different story.