Last week’s passage of a bill in the California state legislature ending the rampant misclassification of workers as independent contractors was a huge win. The bill was animated by the spirit of unions fighting for the entire working class — the exact principle that should animate all unions.

LA's next source of energy: a massive solar panel and lithium battery array in the Mojave, operated by 8minute Solar Energy, and capable of supplying 6-7% of the city's energy budget, with four hours of nighttime use. It will cost an eye-poppingly low $0.03.3/kWh, cheaper than natural gas.

California’s proposal, which aims to reduce the massive amounts of plastic going into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes, would require all packaging to be able to be recycled

Labor leaders cheered in the balcony and lawmakers embraced on the floor of the California Senate on Tuesday as it passed a landmark measure that defines employees, a move that could increase wages and benefits for hundreds of thousands of struggling workers. But the bill is as much a starting point as an endgame: It will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws fashioned in the industrial era of the 1930s to fit a 21st-century service and knowledge economy.

The legislation has earned praise from privacy and civil rights advocates.

The California State Senate has approved Assembly Bill 5, voting 29 to 11 in favor of requiring gig companies like Uber and Lyft to recognize independent contractors as employees. It's not a law just yet -- it has to go through the State Assembly and secure California Governor Gavin Newsom's signature after this -- but it's close to becoming one. The New York Times says the State Assembly vote is expected to be a mere formality, and Newsom is expected to sign the bill into law, seeing as he endorsed it.

Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last week financial protections for consumer investments in rooftop solar energy. The law, AB 1208 authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), extends a prohibition on cities and counties taxing the energy generated by rooftop solar panels for use by homeowners and businesses.

California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers as employees, a move that could reshape the gig economy and that adds fuel to a yearslong debate over whether the nature of work has become too insecure.

In the 1980s, there were fewer than two dozen California Condors left. Today, more than 500 exist in the world, thanks to the efforts of conservationists.

Some of Southern California’s most iconic and popular beaches have lost most of their biodiversity, according to marine scientists

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future. The fire was already growing at a rate of one football field per second when Tamra Fisher woke up on the edge of Paradise, Calif., feeling that her life was no longer insurmountably strenuous or unpleasant and that she might be up to the challenge of living it again.

A homeowner trying to plug a nest of angry wasps with a hammer and stake created the spark that started the biggest fire in state history, Cal Fire says.

As the mountain lions of Southern California approach what some experts call an “extinction vortex,” environmentalists are demanding protective status.

California authorities are preparing to start cleaning up an oil spill that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a Kern County canyon.

“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”

More than 80% of California's iconic Joshua trees are likely to die at the hands of drought and fire over the next 50 years — but there's still time to save them from extinction.

"Part of me still can’t believe we got Arnold," 'Mortal Kombat' creator Ed Boon tweeted after it was revealed the Terminator would be coming to the game. However, sources confirm to THR the actor is not involved in the project.

Thirty years ago, Jacques-André Istel decided to move to the desert and think of something to do. Since then, he has constructed a museum intended to last until the year 6000.

It isn't a secret that tech companies collect your personal data and use it to make a buck. If you don't like it, stop using Facebook and Google. And the rest of the internet. California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks there might be a better relationship: Charge companies to use your information and give some of the benefit back to you. He calls it a "data dividend."