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Average monthly rents are up more than 14% from a year ago. As a result, many tenants might see a big jump at lease renewal time.

As the worst of the pandemic appears behind us, rents are rising sharply. CNBC spoke with experts about how to get ahead of a big jump.

Over the last two years, states and cities have passed dozens of renter-friendly laws, ushering in what advocates say may be a less precarious period.

Cielo Echegoyen, a Hispanic student from Orange County, received a special Christmas gift for her hard work and dedication: she learned she was admitted to Harvard University.

Rapper Silento — best known for his 2015 song “Watch Me” (Whip/Nae Nae) — is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly wielding a hatchet against two strangers in a home in Valley Village. The 22-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Richard Lamar Hawk, is accused of walking into a…

A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking the families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. A federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California. He was convicted by a jury in October. Evidence shows he used Instagram accounts to harass and threaten families of those who...

A 21-year-old Anaheim man was put behind bars on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he met through Tinder, the online dating app.

The FBI arrested a man from California who is accused of using Instagram to threaten, taunt and harass the relatives and friends of the victims who died in the Parkland school shooting, according to court documents.

A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to charges he murdered a gay University of Pennsylvania student in a hate crime. Samuel Woodward entered the plea Friday during a hearing in Santa Ana, California. The 21-year-old suspect is now being held without bail. Woodward is charged in the January stabbing death of college sophomore Blaze Bernstein.

After it was revealed Sunday that the Oakland Police Department asks officer applicants to disclose whether they have been sexually assaulted, Mayor Libby Schaaf said she has ordered the removal of that waiver.

An airplane crashed at a shopping center parking lot in Santa Ana Sunday, the Orange County Fire Authority said.

A federal judge on Tuesday directed the firm associated with attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents porn actress Stormy Daniels, to pay a $10 million judgment to a former legal colleague who claimed he was owed millions, according to news reports. Avenatti was ordered to pay the sum by Judge Catherine Bauer, a federal bankruptcy judge in Santa Ana, California, after...

The Trump administration said Friday that it is ending special immigration protections for about 57,000 Hondurans, adding them to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from other countries battered by violence and natural disasters who are losing permission to be in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s widely anticipated decision not to renew temporary protected status for Hondurans...

Ten members of the U.S. Senate have asked the State Department to pressure the Haitian government into closing an orphanage where several children being adopted by American families have been victims of alleged sexual abuse.

A car wound up on the second floor of a building in Orange County after hitting a median on the street.

When the Trump administration’s travel ban takes partial effect this week, immigrant-rights lawyers plan to head to the nation’s major airports to make sure eligible foreigners are able to get into the country. But attorneys say few people are likely to be affected, and they don’t expect a repeat of the mass confusion that resulted earlier this year when President...

Family and friends of San Bernardino mass shooting victim Tin Nguyen were set to gather for a memorial service Saturday morning in Santa Ana.

The 14 people killed were different in every way imaginable. Men and women. Younger and older. White, black, Hispanic and Asian. Single and married. Here are the stories of the 14 victims in the San Bernardino shooting rampage as told from their loved ones. Among the killed — fathers, husbands, partners, the innocent.

After a 4-year-old California girl named Milagros, or “miracle” in Spanish, who was born without legs had her wheelchair stolen days before Thanksgiving, an NBC4 viewer came to the rescue, donating $10,000 for a new specialized wheelchair.

A 10-year-old girl fought off a thief who tried to take off with her mother’s wallet – then snapped a cellphone picture of the man’s license plate for police before he fled in a minivan from the Santa Ana 7-Eleven.