Many of the companies promising 'net zero' emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birthdates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website on Monday.

Increased groundwater demand and less precipitation because of drought have forever altered the state, but several sectors will be hit especially hard.

California's water wells are running dry at a record pace amid a hotter, drier climate and severe drought, leaving some to rely on bottled water to live.

A lawsuit announced Thursday by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm from \

Should California’s richest residents pay higher taxes to help put more electric vehicles on the road? That’s a question the state’s voters are weighing in the election that concludes Tuesday. Proposition 30 would place a new 1.75% tax on incomes above $2 million, which is estimated to be fewer than 43,000 taxpayers. It would raise billions annually, with most going to help subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles and construction of charging stations. Twenty percent of the money would go toward boosting resources to fight wildfires.

California produces about 90% of the nation's strawberries, but severe drought and worker shortages are threatening the fruit. One company is hoping to change that with the power of robots. Eric Adamson's company is behind a strawberry robotic revolution. He said they're programmed to think on their own, with cameras that sense texture and color.

When Graciela Deniz worked as a health educator at a medical office in Kerman, California, it seemed like all the doctors drove Teslas. Deniz, 32, assumed electric vehicles were a luxury reserved for those with high incomes, until she started a new job last year as a community health worker at the Central California Asthma Collaborative. The organization was involved with the EV Equity program, an initiative to help low-income residents in the San Joaquin Valley buy electric vehicles.

America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.

Battery-powered Teslas, Fords, and Volkswagens aren't about to overwhelm the US electrical grid, despite what Tucker Carlson and some Republican politicians say. Last month, electric-vehicle skeptics had a field day when California's utility urged customers to conserve power during a scorching heat wave by not charging their cars during certain hours. Some conservatives questioned how the state expected to ban sales of combustion-engine cars by 2035 if it couldn't handle the number of EVs on the road today.

On climate change, California is at a crossroads. While the state is at the forefront of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change, it must also decide where the flood or fire danger is too great, and which settlements are too risky to rebuild after they are destroyed.

Water is California's most precious commodity these days, as the state endures a drought that scientists are calling the worst in 1,200 years. State officials say more than 1,200 wells have run dry this year, a nearly 50% increase over the same period last year. California's water crisis is most severe in the San Joaquin Valley, the country's most productive agricultural region. This year's snowmelt and rain have not been enough to replenish already-depleted groundwater supplies.

Keeping BART running is far from easy. Mechanics rely on frankensteined laptops operating Windows 98, train yard scraps, and vintage computer chips.

A whopping 64% of residents in Silicon Valley are worried the region is on the wrong track.

A ruling against the state’s Prop 12 animal welfare law could affect a range of regulations across the country

Nicole Mann is a member of the Wayluckie Tribes of the Round Valley Indians in Northern California. She will be the first Native American woman to be sent into space. The SpaceX Crew-5 mission is scheduled for Oct. 4. However, because of Hurricane Ian, the mission may be postponed, as several space rocket launches have already been postponed. The SpaceX Crew-5 mission serves an order from NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft will be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

By 2027, Golden State residents will have the choice to turn their bodies into nutrient-rich compost

For decades, many California cities, like Los Angeles and San Diego, have been synonymous with sprawl. But by eliminating parking minimums in areas near public transit, the Golden State just took a major step to change that.

A California woman who faked her own high-profile kidnapping has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making false statements to the FBI. Sherri Papini, 39, went missing in November 2016 after going for a run. She appeared three weeks later on Thanksgiving claiming two Hispanic women had kidnapped her, sparking a multi-state manhunt.

California will be the first state to require online companies to put kids' safety first by barring them from profiling children or using personal information in ways that could harm children physically or mentally, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.