A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days. The trip was smooth like butter, 40,000 pounds of it.

The California Republican is facing federal corruption charges he looted campaign cash to finance vacations, golf outings and other personal expenses.

California said on Monday it will halt all purchases of new vehicles for state government fleets from GM, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and other automakers backing U.S. President Donald Trump in a battle to strip the state of authority to regulate tailpipe emissions.

Tesla and other EV companies have joined the fight against the Trump administration’s effort to prevent California from implementing its own clean air program.

Metallica are pitching in to help with the devastating wildfire season in California. The band said they've donated $100,000 through their All Within My Hands non-profit foundation to help in the recovery from the fires that have ripped through both Northern and Southern California over the past month, displacing thousands and leaving more than 500,000 in the dark due to power outages aimed at avoiding further blazes.

State officials will vote this week on a proposal to allow "community solar" farms instead of rooftop panels.

Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California. As costs skyrocket for renters and potential homebuyers — and as the availability of affordable housing fails to keep pace with the region’s growth — community members like teachers, firefighters, first responders and service workers are increasingly having to make the difficult choice to leave behind the community they have long called home.

Airborne remote sensing spots the Golden State’s biggest emitters of the potent greenhouse gas from the sky.

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

When you walk through Jeannie Williams's sunny orchard, you don't notice anything wrong. But the problem's there, underfoot. The land around her — about 250 square kilometres — is sinking. "It's frightening," Williams says. "Is the land going to come back up? I don't know."

The laws go after malicious video forgeries.

A new California law makes it illegal to create manipulated videos that discredit a political candidate.

"Out go the lights."

California will be the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products and the third to bar most animals from circus performances

California's Tehachapi Pass is already home to one of the largest wind farms in the world, and now Amazon is coming, building a huge wind project in the area. How renewable-energy projects from tech giants are changing life in small-town America.

Students of California, go ahead: Hit that snooze button. A new law signed by governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday will push back public school start times in an effort to help kids get more sleep.

Felicity Huffman was released from prison on Friday after serving 11 of her 14 days for her role in the nationwide college admissions cheating case. Huffman’s early release is a normal policy for inmates who are set to be released over the weekend, according to a prison official. Huffman’s reps did not immediately respond for comment.

As the Democratic debate kicks off on Wednesday, one town in California is experimenting with a version of universal income that is espoused by candidate Andrew Yang.

U.S. authorities are investigating a fatal Tesla Inc Model S crash in Florida last Sunday that killed the driver and caused a massive fire, the second fatal Tesla crash in the state this week being probed, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Saturday. The agency and the National Transportation Safety Board said late on Friday they were sending teams to investigate the other fatal crash Friday in Delray Beach, Florida of a 2018 Model 3 that crashed into a semi-trailer.

Members of a middle-school boys volleyball team prevented a 47-year-old Fresno woman from jumping to her death from a bridge on Thursday. The boys, who are in grades 6, 7 and 8 at Keppler Neighborhood School were jogging when they saw a woman on the Tuolumne Street Bridge about to jump to the railroad tracks nearly 100 feet below, according to 6ABC.