Despite its reluctance to fly, the roadrunner is not in danger and Richard Collins tells us how the grounded bird keeps thriving.

A GROWING wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles surged north yesterday, forcing more evacuations and threatening some 10,000 homes.

At least two people were killed when a blinding sandstorm surprised motorists in the desert north of Los Angeles.

An 18-year-old man suspected of plotting a murder spree at a high school in southern California was sentenced to five years in state prison.