California Supreme Court appears skeptical of sheriff’s ballot seizure
California Supreme Court justices hammered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of hundreds of thousands of…
California planned a nuclear exit. Now it’s reconsidering
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Diablo Canyon doesn’t look like a nuclear power plant that’s getting ready to retire. Beneath…
Arraignment of State Parks head accused of filming lifeguards delayed
Arraignment was postponed Thursday for a former state parks superintendent accused of recording naked lifeguards at a Bolsa…
Boiling Point: Toxic underground fires are spreading at California landfills
Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita…
Sharks can hear swimmers and surfers way before they smell or see them
Forget the smell of blood and all the shark fears we’ve internalized thanks to “Jaws” and “Shark Week.”…
What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia…
Fire survivors were finally ready to rebuild. A new barrier is leaving them ‘demoralized’
More than a year after the Eaton fire devastated their community, returning to their beloved Altadena neighborhood finally…
Costco asks CA customers to isolate plants with invasive insect — again
Costco has issued a warning to customers who purchased a certain flowering tree from its stores that it…
How technology is revealing ‘Hidden Nations of Animals’
As the destructive Bobcat fire sent plumes of smoke billowing from the Angeles National Forest in 2020, Ryan…
Trump strips away Nixon-era safeguards on off-road battle
President Trump recently took action that could pave the way for opening many more federal lands to recreational…
How CalCOFI, a SoCal marine monitoring program, redefined El Niño
This might come as a surprise, unless you’re plugged into ocean science lore: The oldest and longest-running marine…
A toxic metal stayed in the air for months after L.A. County fires
After the Eaton and Palisades fires devastated Southern California, a highly toxic metal stayed in the air much…