We tell ourselves that disasters are the price we must occasionally pay, and vow to live more responsibly. But do we?

A USA TODAY photographer in a helicopter captured the devastation left behind by wildfires along the Pacific Coast Highway in ...

While some homeowners insurance companies have stopped or paused writing new policies in California, getting coverage is still possible. Whether buying a new home or just shopping for a better ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif — New year, new laws. Hundreds of laws were passed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. By 2025, a number of those laws are set to go into effect — along with some from years ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s constant reminders that California’s economy ”leads the nation” as well as being a model for social justice are delusional. To be sure, California has a huge GDP ...

on Dec. 23, 2024. Daniel Dreifuss/AFP via Getty Images Marina police officers, firefighters, U.S. Coast Guard and the California Highway Patrol launched an extensive search for the man using boats ...

California's population has bounced back to levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) ...

California’s new minimum-wage law hadn’t even gone into effect before it was declared a disaster. Business groups and Republican politicians have argued for decades that minimum-wage increases ...

The California exodus that’s been declared over and over again isn’t real, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau published this week. The Golden State’s population grew by 0.6 ...

California's population surged in 2024, growing by almost a quarter of a million residents. From 2023 to 2024, the number of residents increased by 233,000 people, reaching 39.4 million in July ...

More Americans left California between 2023 and 2024 than any other state across the country, according to new data released by the Census Bureau. The Golden State lost a total of 239,575 ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...