The predicted number of travelers would be a 3.6% increase from 2024, and would mark the third straight year of record-breaking travel by Southern California residents on Memorial Day weekend.

A small plane crashed into a residential area of southern California in the middle of the night, police said on Thursday, smashing into houses and setting multiple cars ablaze. TV footage showed rows of cars burned to blackened shells and at least one house suffering major destruction in the San Diego neighborhood of low-rise homes.

Southern California is expected to experience a rise in temperatures and clearer skies around Memorial Day weekend, with some inland areas potentially setting records for daily high temperatures.

Lingering debris from the Palisades fire and marine mammals sickened by toxic algae remain a concern, but there is a bright spot with water quality this summer.

Rize Credit Union offers a two-year “Impact Certificate” that can help the saver’s choice of foster care, wildfire relief or an educational foundation.

Orange, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties are soon to surpass the $100,000 annual salary threshold for a low-income single-person household in California, if current trends continue.

This fiscal year, the Border Patrol detected 277 maritime smuggling attempts involving jet skis, panga boats and other vessels.

The fire was reported around 2:45 p.m. Friday on the 17700 block of San Pasqual Valley Road, according to Cal Fire. The fire burned near San Pasqual Academy. The fire had burned nearly 50 acres, but firefighters stopped the forward rate of spread by 6 p.m. Friday.

The population dips by 9,000 in five years as 556,000 housing units are added. Yet no savings for house hunters or apartment seekers.