A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States was cleared to gather signatures ...

At least 29 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across Southern California ... ready to help any state facing these unprecedented ...

Rates for homeowners insurance in California show no sign of dropping, especially since some carriers have stopped or paused writing new policies in the state. But whether you're getting a policy ...

SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration actions have quickly made Rob Bonta the state’s chief border antagonist. The California attorney general was a state ...

Jan. 3, 2025 But California’s public defense system is in crisis because the state has declined to fund it at the county level. California simply does not have enough public defenders ...

SACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump may visit California this week as state Attorney General Rob Bonta begins filing expected lawsuits against the president's new executive orders. Mr. Trump ...

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal disaster aid for the Los Angeles area if California doesn't change the way it manages water in the state. Mr. Trump said he plans to head to ...

California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom — who has been criticized by Republicans and Trump for his response to the wildfires — invited him to visit the state last week, urging him not ...

For people who don’t live in California, the nation’s most populous state can be a little hard to understand. Home to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Yosemite National Park and Disneyland, Lake Tahoe ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the ...

The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state’s property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the worst urban disturbances in U.S. history.