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Pods that can be lowered into the ocean could offer the next generation of seawater desalination. A prototype is being tested in Las Virgenes Reservoir.

Red Flag Warnings in effect for parts of the two counties. Some precautionary Public Safety Power Shutoffs are also possible.

More than 60,000 power customers in Ventura County could be impacted by precautionary Public Safety Power Shutoffs.

PCH, Las Virgenes Road/Malibu Canyon Road closed by Franklin Fire

Magnitude 3.5 quake hits at 2:15 Friday afternoon, with an epicenter four miles north of Malibu. No damage is reported.

Magnitude 3.6 quake hit at 4:22 a.m. It may be an aftershock of last Thursday's larger quake centered in the same area near Malibu.

Initial quake was magnitude 4.7, with the epicenter about four miles north of Malibu. A pair of magnitude 3.4 quakes are among the aftershocks.

Man convicted of killing wife and stepson for insurance money in what was originally reported as a boating accident in the Channel Islands.

No damage reported from string of quakes which started Friday afternoon.

During storm, the ocean tore away protective rocks, sand from ocean side of the PCH, threatening to undermine southound lanes.