5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (263+ words) We may soon be talking like pirates — the official "Talk Like a Pirate Day" observance arrrrrr-ives on Sept. 19, so mateys, get ready — but there are other salty goings-on to savor sooner, specifically around Dana Point Harbor. The scenic seaport has…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (390+ words) Recent drenchings are prompting plants to powerfully pop in yards across Southern California. Truly, rain-soaked flowers, shrubs, and grasses are growing before our eyes as moister days run like a proverbial river through our region, at least poetically. But nothing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (394+ words) A family’s touching birthday tradition brought a 5-year-old boy to tears in a heartwarming video that went viral on social media. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. The glow of a birthday cake’s candles showed a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (259+ words) Hankerings and horror thrills are a duo as classic as cheese and bread, wine and grapes, or a sumptuous feast filling a long dining room table inside in a drafty old castle. Your favorite scary film probably possesses some sort…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (218+ words) November, especially just after Daylight Saving Time concludes, can feel lovely and low-lit and wholly mysterious. It's right around the middle of the eleventh month when a few illuminated events begin to sparkle, those garden-based, park-sparkly celebrations that offer locals…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (277+ words) Christmas in July has gone bye-bye and Augtober, with its first frightful promises of fall fun, is in sunny and spooky swing. But if you search and seek, you can find a few festive suggestions of the holiday season that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (222+ words) While the nights have been growing longer since June, the aura of eveningtime seems to deepen right when we're at the doorway to autumn. That's an ideal time for some of Southern California's most fabled haunted happenings to begin their…...