In California, the high cost of housing is hurting the state's economic growth and pushing its citizens deeper into poverty. But there's so much land! Why is it so hard to find somewhere affordable to rent?

Since January, over 1,450 sea lions have been found stranded on California beaches, crowding rescue centers past capacity and worrying animal experts, The New York Times reports. According to researchers, this is 5 times greater than the historical average.

A Rosemeade, Ca. man lost out on $1 million last night after the deadline passed for him to claim his cash from the state. Fucking idiot lost his winning ticket.

It is less accurate to call California "a U.S. state" than it is to call it "a future earthquake-induced rubble pile." As happens quite often, scientists have once again made their doomsaying forecasts about California's disastrous future even worse.

On Monday morning, a popular photography teacher at El Dorado High School in Valencia, California was found hanging in her classroom by students, the Orange County Register reports.

On Saturday, a small fire broke out near Disneyland's It's a Small World attraction, NBC Los Angeles reports, injuring none but entertaining many.

At least 30 people were injured early Tuesday morning after a Metrolink commuter train crashed into a truck—reportedly a tractor trailer—near Oxnard, California, causing five train cars to derail and the truck to burst into flames. No fatalities have been reported, though two people are reportedly in critical condition. The truck's driver fled the scene but was captured about a mile away.

An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" has been reported at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center, the university announced Wednesday. One-hundred and seventy-nine patients were exposed to the bug between October 2014 and January 2015—the hospital believes the infection was a "contributing factor" in the deaths of two patients.

A California teenager died early Monday morning after losing a game of Russian Roulette to himself in his family's basement.

Have you or someone you know been spanked, whipped or otherwise dominated by the deceptive marketing of 50 Shades of Grey-branded sex lube? If so, you may be entitled to compensation for your losses, should one California woman's new lawsuit be successful.

According to SFGate, police have detained a man previously identified as a "person of interest" in connection with a suitcase stuffed with dismembered body parts found in San Francisco.

Yesterday afternoon, San Francisco police discovered a suitcase containing dismembered human remains. Not long after, more body parts were found scattered nearby.

Yesterday, a federal judge overturned the state of California's ban on foie gras. Great news, for assholes.

Presumably hoping to capture the Christmas spirit one last time, a tragically un-Santa-like California woman reportedly stripped nude and tried to shimmy down her estranged ex's chimney yesterday, becoming stuck in the process.

Both boys' and girls' varsity basketball teams from a Northern California high school were disinvited from a tournament because of concerns that players would wear "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups, the Associated Press reports.

More than 18,000 nurses in California are planning to strike for two days beginning Tuesday over concerns about how prepared they are to deal with Ebola. According to Bloomberg News, the strike would affect 21 hospital and 65 clinics, all owned by Kaiser Permanente.

While the generally shitty fallout of yesterday's election day can be read about in thorough detail over here, there's at least one law that passed yesterday and should be celebrated: The forthcoming, first-ever soda tax imposed in America which passed yesterday in Berkeley, Calif. with over three-quarters of the vote.

A mosque in Coachella, California was hit with gunfire early on Tuesday morning, authorities are reporting. No one was injured.

Authorities are looking for a man who struck and killed three girls in a residential area of Santa Ana while speeding on Halloween.

Federal authorities say the man suspected of killing two deputies during a shooting spree in Northern California on Friday had a drug conviction and was deported to Mexico twice. The man told investigators he was Marcelo Marquez of Salt Lake City, but the AP reports his fingerprints match those of a Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte.