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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

Legislators want to shield K-12 schools once Trump orders mass deportations, but they can only delay, not stop, immigration ...

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.