What started as a documentary film about a wealthy businessman with a checkered past morphed into a life-or-death drama involving a faked murder, a double-cross and an FBI sting operation.

The ground is still moving in Rolling Hills Estates, more than a day after 12 homes were evacuated because of major ground slides.

Hollywood is once again in the midst of a historic labor battle in which studios are facing a possible strike on two fronts in a protracted fight over new forms of distribution.

Thousands of workers at hotels near the Los Angeles International Airport area walked off the job in a second wave of rolling strikes.

A heat wave is expected to hit Southern California this week, bringing ‘elevated’ fire danger to the region and increasing the chance for heat-related illness.