RIDGECREST, Calif. -- A Ridgecrest man assessing the damage in Kern County after two powerful earthquakes rocked the region used a giant stick to show the depth of a massive fissure. Erik Catlin ...

Reporting from Ridgecrest, Calif. — After the earthquake hit Chuck Pryor’s Ridgecrest ranch home Friday night, sending wine glasses crashing to the floor, the lifelong Californian said he wasn’t going ...

A Southern California police chief is upset with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for making fun of a children's theater performance during one of two earthquakes that rocked his town last week. Kimmel ...

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As military spending skyrockets and the push is on for new weapons to go quickly from the lab to the fleet, military leaders, defense contractors, innovators and investors will gather Dec. 16 in ...

More than 80,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the Ridgecrest area since July 4 — the aftermath from two of the biggest temblors to hit California in nearly a decade. Experts said the two major ...

Hundreds of aftershocks rumbled in Southern California on Friday, the day after the region was rocked by the strongest earthquake in two decades, igniting fires, triggering a hospital evacuation and ...

This walkthrough of the Ridgecrest LE6012 highlights a design that challenges common ideas about mobile homes. From the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake late Friday with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 about 11 miles from Ridgecrest in the Mojave desert and 123 north of Los Angeles. The earthquake is ...

We received almost three quarters of an inch of rain in the Foothills yesterday with more coming down this morning. This has ...