As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

New bills would void the new fuel standards, remove taxes from tips and bolster investigations of missing or killed Indigenous people.

State analysts have a plan to fix the "structural insolvency" of unemployment benefits but it’s unclear if lawmakers will get on board.

Some Northern CA cities have been soaked with almost twice their average rain, while southern cities are bone-dry. This season’s huge — possibly unprecedented — disparity works in favor of water ...

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles County residents evacuated from at least three blazes whipped up by fierce Santa Ana winds Tuesday: the Palisades Fire along the coast in Pacific Palisades, the Eaton ...

When the Democrat-dominated California Legislature reconvened this week, its members chanted a new mantra about trying to reduce living costs.

Six years in and with two more to go, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, has reached a political inflection point.

Reparations advocates are campaigning for two proposals that failed in the final hours of last year’s legislative session.

A supermajority of Democrats and an emboldened Republicans return to the Capitol today, at odds over how to lower the cost of ...

A California high school teacher partners with a community college and car dealers to teach teens about work, life and auto technology.

Homelessness grew more nationwide last year than in California, but the state still has more than 187,000 people on the street or in shelters.

California tribes sue card rooms over alleged illegal gambling, threatening millions in tax revenue for local city services ...