In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.

African Americans helped build the iconic beach town, historian Alison Rose Jefferson details as California weighs reparations

California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.

Firefighters in southern California were battling three separate brush fires that started on Friday afternoon amid a blistering heatwave. The fires were all within 40 miles (65km) of each other in mostly rural areas across Riverside county, south-east of Los Angeles.

One man designs AI-powered chatbot to mess with telemarketers and phone scammers.

In a few weeks it will be one year since the article “California just hit 95% renewable energy. Will other states come along for the ride?” appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Its author, reporter Sammy Roth, had learned that California briefly generated 95% of the electricity consumers were using from renewable sources a few days earlier, and he was elated.

A dog has died after being hit by a self-driving car last month in San Francisco, according to California's Department of Motor Vehicles.

Deadly accident said to be unavoidable

People ask me why I’m always smiling at environmental events. When I look back at the past 20 years and see how far we’ve come in California, how could I not smile? A few weeks ago, I plugged in a huge solar roof on a 180,000 square foot warehouse at the port in Los Angeles. It was made possible by California's million solar roofs initiative.

A federal court in California dismissed a seven-year lawsuit brought by Resolute Forest Products against a number of Greenpeace staff members and entities, including Greenpeace International and Greenpeace USA.

Dozens of California cities have passed laws phasing out natural gas appliances

Water from the Los Angeles River connects to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, meaning pollution upriver can impact the city's coastal waters.

Spring has offered California a welcome reprieve from the record rains and historic snowfall that hammered the state in recent weeks, but a new danger wrought by the warming weather looms large. The state’s enormous snowpack will soon begin to melt – and communities are bracing for waters to rise yet again. Trillions of gallons of water packed within the record level of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada range are expected to rush into rivers and reservoirs as the weather heats up, heightening flood risks in areas already saturated by the state’s extremely wet winter.

The first thing Nalleli Cobo wanted to do when she heard the oil well in her South Los Angeles neighborhood was shutting down was scream. She had so much pent-up energy she didn’t know what else to do. Cobo grew up breathing foul-smelling, toxic emissions from an oil production site just 30 feet from her home. She sometimes caught whiffs of chocolate and citrus, which she thinks came from chemicals used to mask the fetid smell.

NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, which was launched in 2021​ to capture images of Earth's land surface, sent back images​ of bright purple and green blooms in Carrizo Plain National Park.

U.S. cities with surging self-employment rates revealed; study uncovers trends and income disparities among freelancers.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it’s granting California the legal authority to require that half of all heavy-duty truck sales in the state be fully electric by 2035, an ambitious standard that will go beyond federal requirements. The Biden administration’s approval of California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Regulation comes after the state last year banned the sale of new gasoline-powered cars starting in the same target year of 2035.

As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.

After criticizing all local homelessness plans last year, Newsom announced during his State of the State tour that locals have agreed to reduce unsheltered homelessness by 15% in two years.

Rancher Robert Puga's cattle had been stranded and starving in the snow for weeks. "We've never seen record snow like this, ever. And we're losing cattle left and right," Puga said. His ranch is in the far north of California in Trinity County, in an area that's been hit especially hard by the state's recent wave of unprecedented snowfall.