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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new legislation that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the work by easing environmental permitting.

A consumer advocacy group has filed a lawsuit to block insurers from charging California customers for $500 million in costs associated with the January wildfires.

A bill in the California Legislature that would have made oil and gas companies liable for damage to homes caused by natural disasters has failed to advance.

Nearly three months after two wildfires destroyed thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area, officials say the combined death toll from the blazes has reached 30.

Former Biden administration Health Secretary Xavier Becerra is the latest Democrat to join the crowded field seeking to become California's next governor.

California voters have pushed for higher payments to doctors treating low-income patients, but the state has missed a federal deadline to claim millions for this purpose.

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

Climate change speeds up the water cycle and triggers more extreme weather.

The Trump administration is investigating California's education department over a law that bans school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child's pronoun change.

Dozens of bird eggs and chicks have been rescued from a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapse in a California park.

Steph Curry has a deal with a Random House Publishing Group imprint that you could call a 3-point play.

The California Victim Compensation Board is scrambling to bring itself in line with a court order that requires it to offer in-person evidentiary hearings for people who contest a denied application.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a backlash from members of his own party after a series of podcasts that featured Steve Bannon and other supporters of President Donald Trump.

An appeals court has upheld California’s law banning gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, a decision that prompted one judge to record an unusual video dissent while loading guns in his chambers.

California faces a $6.2 billion budget gap in the state's Medicaid services.