Liz Kreutz

Pacific Palisades Fire evacuee Casey Colvin reunited with the firefighter who helped save his two dogs who he was unable to reach after the fire broke out.

California couple of 63 years loses nearly everything in Mountain Fire except their wedding album

NBC News’ Liz Kreutz speaks with the photographers Anna Moneymaker (Getty Images), Doug Mills (The New Yorker), and Evan Vucci (The Associated Press), who all were present in Pennsylvania at the moment an attempted assassination of former Donald J. Trump occurred.

The 2024 Paris Olympics will take on a particularly special meaning for Brittney Griner. The WNBA star will be competing for her country for the third time in Paris — and the first time since she was detained in Russia on drug charges for nearly 10 months in 2022. “BG is locked in and ready to go,” Griner told NBC News on Friday. “I’m happy, I’m in a great place. I’m representing my country, the country that fought for me to come back. I’m gonna represent it well.” Griner will also be competing…

ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK, Calif. — For most of the year, the hills around Southern California are characteristically brown. Los Angeles’s Mediterranean-type climate survives on an average of less than 15 inches of rain a year, and in areas that are classified as desert, it’s even less. But near-record winter rainfall has turned those often-brown slopes into seas of undulating green — and in places, a sleeping beauty is slowly awakening. While a wildflower “superbloom” is hard to predict, e…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — For more than five years, Helen Cruz lived on the streets of Grants Pass. A small, rural town of roughly 40,000 people, the city has now found itself at the center of a homeless crisis plaguing major cities across the U.S. “We’re in this situation not because we want to be. We’re in this situation because we don’t have a choice right now,” Cruz, 49, said in an interview. For years, Grants Pass has been embroiled in a contentious lawsuit with homeless residents like Cruz, who…

REFUGIO STATE BEACH, Calif. — A severe storm that pummeled California has taken a toll on some of the state’s most iconic trees. Several majestic palm trees that usually flank the Refugio State Beach just north of Santa Barbara have come crashing down in recent days. Images show how the massive, 100-year-old trees were completely uprooted as they fell into the ocean. Local officials say a combination of factors caused the trees to fall: several years of beach erosion, combined with powerful hi…

LOS ANGELES — Steve Garvey is known for his plays on the field, but now he’s making a play at politics. Garvey, 74, a former National League MVP who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, is jumping into California’s crowded U.S. Senate race as a Republican, hoping to win the seat the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein occupied for more than three decades. “We need fresh voices; we need new ideas. We need people who are going to be exactly that: for the people,” Garvey…

LOS ANGELES — With Republican candidates in California this week for the second presidential primary debate, another showdown between state party members has been quietly bubbling behind the scenes — one that could indicate larger rifts in the Republican Party heading into 2024. At the California GOP’s convention set to take place this weekend, delegates will engage in a potentially contentious debate over proposed changes to the state party’s platform that would soften the language against ab…

Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at his Margaritaville empire locations.