2025 in California
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The year 2025 in California involved various noteworthy events.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 7 – Palisades Fire: A wildlife erupts in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.[1]
- January 8 – January 2025 Southern California wildfires: The Wildfires spreads to more areas of Los Angeles County.[2]
- January 10 – Operation Return to Sender: Over 60 U.S. Border Patrol agnets in Kern County arrested 78 undocumented Migrants during a 3 day operation in Bakersfield.[3]
- January 21
- Operation Los Impuestos: 39 Members of the Mexican Mafia were arrested in San Diego during a coordinated takeover by the San Diego Police Department's Street Gang Unit, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[4]
- The city of Huntington Beach declares itself a non-sanctuary city.[5]
- January 27 – Federal authorities arrest 8 individuals involved in a large-scale smuggling operation that illicitly imported counterfeit and illegal goods from China into the United States through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.[6]
- January 30 – A two-venue benefit concert called FireAid is held at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome; proceeds are intended to help people impacted by the wildfires earlier in the month.[7]
February
- February 2
- The 67th Annual Grammy Awards is held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, honoring the best in music from September 2023 to August 2024.[8]
- February 2025 Los Angeles protests: Thousands of protesters convened at Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles to voice their dissent against the heightened activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[9]
- February 18 – Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe is arrested for civil disobedience during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting.[10]
- February 21 – LAFD chief Kristin Crowley is fired by Mayor Karen Bass.[11]
March
- March 2 – The 97th Academy Awards is held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, honoring the best in films released in 2024.[12]
- March 11 – American Musician Wes Scantlin is arrested for domestic violence against his girlfriend and drug possession in Torrance.[13]
- March 17 – The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards is held in the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California.[14]
- March 28 – Comedian and actor Paul Rodriguez is arrested for drug possession during a traffic stop in Burbank.[15]
April
- April 4 – A fire occurs in the Pixar Pals parking structure at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, resulting in damage to multiple vehicles.[16]
- April 15 – Barbara Lee is elected Mayor of Oakland, defeating Loren Taylor.[17]
May
- May 4 – President Donald Trump announces his intent to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which closed in 1963.[18]
- May 17 – A car bomb is detonated outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs. The bomber is killed and four people are injured.[19]
- May 22 – 2025 San Diego Cessna Citation II crash: A plane crashes in a San Diego neighborhood. Six people, including music agent Dave Shapiro, are killed, and eight people in the neighborhood are hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries.[20]
June
- June 6 – Federal immigration authorities conducted a series of coordinated raids across Los Angeles, resulting in the arrest of at least 500 individuals. The operations targeted multiple locations, including a clothing warehouse, Home Depot parking lots, and a doughnut shop.[21] Demonstrations erupt in response, leading to confrontations between protesters and law enforcement.[22]
- June 7 – Border Czar Tom Homan announces the National Guard will be deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles.[23]
- June 8:
- The city of Glendale announces it will no longer allow ICE to hold federal detainees in its jail.[24]
- More than 150 people are arrested during an anti-ICE protest in San Francisco.[25]
- A small plane crashes off the coast of San Diego, killing all six occupants.[26]
- June 9:
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta says the state of California will sue President Trump over his decision to federalize California National Guard troops in Los Angeles.[27]
- The United States Northern Command says it will move 700 Marines to the Los Angeles area in response to protests.[28]
- June 12 – Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from a news conference held by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.[29]
- June 14 – July 6: 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the Western United States, including California.[30]
- June 19 – The Los Angeles Dodgers report that they blocked ICE agents from entering Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The Department of Homeland Security disputes this, saying the agents were from Customs and Border Protection and that they did not attempt to enter.[31]
- June 20 – A panel of three federal judges in the Ninth Circuit rules that Trump is allowed to keep the California National Guard under federal control.[32]
- June 21 – A boat with ten occupants capsizes on the California side of Lake Tahoe. Eight people are killed and two are rescued.[33]
- June 28 – Governor Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation, accusing the network of knowingly airing false information about a phone call he had with Trump over the National Guard being sent to Los Angeles.[34]
- June 29 – The Wolf Fire begins.[35]
- June 30 – The Trump administration sues the city of Los Angeles, claiming they refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.[36]
July
- July 1 – A fireworks warehouse in Esparto is destroyed by explosions, killing seven people, damaging several nearby homes, and causing a vegetation fire.[37][38]
- July 2:
- Former WBC middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr. is arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles due to allegations of Chávez Jr's connections with the Sinaloa Cartel, which the U.S. has designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.[39]
- The University of California system says student governments are banned from boycotting foreign countries, including Israel.[40]
- July 7 – Dozens of federal officers and about 90 members of the National Guard are deployed to a largely-empty MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.[41]
- July 9 – Thirty-one workers are rescued when a Tunnel boring machine partially collapses an industrial tunnel in the Los Angeles Neighborhood of Wilmington.[42]
- July 10 – 2025 Camarillo, California ICE raid: Immigration agents raid a farm near Camarillo, arresting around 200 people and sparking protests. During the raid, farmworker Jaime Garcia falls off a building and dies from his injuries.[43] During the subsequent protests, a man is filmed appearing to fire a weapon at federal agents.[44]
- July 14 – American Idol producer Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca are killed in their Encino, Los Angeles home during a suspected burglary.[45]
- July 18 – Three Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies are killed in an explosion at a training center in East Los Angeles.[46]
- July 19 – 36 people are injured when a car drives into pedestrians outside a club on Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood. The driver of the vehicle is beaten and shot by bystanders.[47]
- July 27 – Three people are killed when a Beech 95-B55 Baron aircraft crashes into the ocean near Point Pinos Lighthouse in Pacific Grove.[48]
- July 31 – The federal government suspends federal research funding to the University of California, Los Angeles over claims of antisemetism.[49]
August
- August 1 – The Gifford Fire begins.[50]
- August 2 – The World Dog Surfing Championships are held at Pacifica State Beach.[51]
- August 6 – Using a fake job offer, ICE lures 16 immigrants to a Westlake, Los Angeles Home Depot parking lot and arrests them. Penske, whose rental truck was used to transport ICE agents to the operation, releases a statement saying Penske guidelines prohibit using the back of their trucks to transport people and requesting DHS refrain from doing so.[52]
- August 7 – The Canyon Fire begins.[53]
- August 14 – A man is struck and killed by a car on the highway while fleeing an ICE raid at a Home Depot in Monrovia.[54]
- August 19 – An El Dorado County resident in the Lake Tahoe area tests positive for bubonic plague.[55]
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- ^ "Extortion, drugs and murder: Dozens arrested in San Diego Mexican Mafia operation". San Diego Union-Tribune. January 22, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2025.
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