WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

Under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest act, Angelenos will be able to rebuild without complying with state and local rules mandating a permitting process.

Calexit is a movement for the largest U.S. state to secede from the union, though the initiative's website offers contradictory definitions.

California joined a coalition of U.S. states that sued to block President Donald Trump's move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.

Firefighters from stations in western Washington have returned home after spending several weeks in Southern California assisting in the fight against wildfires

The California Historical Society, a San Francisco-based institution with a once-vibrant museum on Mission Street, announced Tuesday it will close all its programs and Stanford University will acquire its vast collections and archives.

A new House bill would make it a federal crime to “cause a wildfire, further the spread of a wildfire, or attempt to do either,” according to the bill’s sponsors.

Some U.S. House Republicans in California are breaking with Speaker Mike Johnson over his suggestion that federal disaster aid be coupled with as-yet unspecified conditions on the wildfire-ravaged state.

Border officials say the attack bolsters President Donald Trump’s claims that the U.S.-Mexico border is more lawless than official statistics indicate.

California Republicans are making the trip to our nation's capital to watch the inauguration ceremonies. Festivities and security measures are underway as President-elect Donald Trump gets ready for his second inauguration.

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next.