Crews and officials battling a large fire that has incinerated more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) in northern California braced for the possibility on Sunday that smoke columns could spawn lightning storms capable of igniting more blazes.

California's fair employment agency filed a lawsuit against gaming giant Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, accusing the Call of Duty publisher of a "pervasive frat boy" in which female employees were routinely harassed. In one alleged incident, a "newly promoted male supervisor delegated his responsibilities to his now female subordinates in favor of playing Call of Duty," the filing said.

A California couple has been criminally charged for their role in igniting last year’s destructive El Dorado wildfire after they used a pyrotechnic device during a gender-reveal party. The blaze torched close to 23,000 acres (9,300 hectares), destroyed five homes and 15 other buildings, and claimed the life of a firefighter, Charlie Morton.

California lawmakers approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the nation Thursday, aimed at providing monthly cash payments to low-income young adults who've recently left foster care and pregnant people out of poverty.

Michael Gargiulo murdered Ashley Ellerin hours before she was due to go on a date with actor Ashton Kutcher.

‘Record-breaking heat’ is expected to affect much of the west and southwest US over the weekend, weather centre warns.

The tallest trees in the world are so large we can’t see the top of them. They dwarf any of our feats of engineering - Hyperion, a Californian Redwood.

California’s diminishing water supply is cutting down hydropower, causing the state to rely more on fossil fuels

California has $5.2 billion in funds to pay off past due rent that has accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn't seem hard.

Some 146 shipments of salmon will take a 30,000-mile-long truck journey from hatcheries to direct release sites to maximize their survival rate.

Santa Clara county, the home of Silicon Valley, issued mandatory water restrictions this week during a severe drought that has already reached historic levels. The move was championed by analysts and researchers who have pushed for more conservation efforts across California amid concerns that the state will fall deeper into a drought disaster through the hot, dry summer and autumn.

The California legislature has been handed what might be their easiest job this year, and they are refusing to do it. Californians far and wide have spent the pandemic either tethered to their high-speed broadband connections (if they’re lucky), or desperately trying to find ways to make their internet ends meet. School children are using the wifi in parking lots, shared from fast food restaurants.

Two years of extremely dry weather have driven the levels of California’s reservoirs to near-record lows, and residents, farmers, and fire crews are preparing for a long, dry summer.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced that in accordance with the implementation of SB 1014 of 2018, a regulation has been adopted that will require ridesharing companies to begin…

Under normal circumstances, a person would welcome the opportunity to closely observe a group of California condors, North America’s largest flying land birds, which made a miraculous recovery after nearly becoming extinct in the 1980s.

California has increased early release credits for some 76,000 inmates throughout the state to incentivize good behavior and participation in rehabilitation programs.

A 2020 wildfire that killed two people in Northern California and eventually became part of one of the largest fires in the state's history was set intentionally in an attempt to cover up a woman's murder, authorities announced Wednesday.

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating to World War II has long been suspected.

The California Highway Patrol responded to this freak collision Tuesday on Interstate 10 in Southern California’s San Gorgonio Pass. This is one where you need to see the photos to believe it.