Some of the ancient, towering conifers in Big Basin Redwoods State Park are a casualty of the fires that have wracked the state.

As more schools abandon plans for in-person classes, one that opened in Indiana this week had to quarantine students within hours.

The movie star and former governor of California addressed Russians and Russian soldiers, saying, “ “your lives, your limbs, your futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war.”

Thursday: The former governor had a lot to say in a recent interview at his home in Los Angeles. Also: A sheep experiment in Davis.

The University of California, Davis, is providing free testing, masks and quarantine housing to tens of thousands of people who live nearby.

The C.D.C. now recommends that all adults get a booster. But only one in six Americans has received that shot, worrying health officials.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation that would provide a minimum $10,000 award to residents who successfully sue makers of illegal guns.

Amid a pandemic and a recall, Mr. Schwarzenegger has been in demand at his Los Angeles mansion, embracing his unlikely role as California’s “elderly statesman.”

The California governor says film companies should “walk the walk” on abortion rights and L.G.B.T.Q. protections by leaving states such as Georgia and Oklahoma.

On Wednesday, Justice Anthony Kennedy, the longtime swing vote on the Supreme Court, announced that he would retire from his seat. Democrats and Leftists in the media went apoplectic; the wailing and...

In California and New York, where mandates for health care workers have gone into effect, many are complying.

Schools face rising demands for tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence as students ask if college is becoming “glorified Skype.”

California enjoys priding itself on its open-mindedness with regard to illegal immigration. In 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown attended an event with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. There, according to...

Known for her ‘elegant’ mind, the moderate judge, now on President Biden’s short list of potential high court nominees, could be a mediating force in Washington.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

Only the 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which left 26 victims dead, has had a higher toll.

The staggering sum — a combination of three sets of settlements with hundreds of alleged victims of Dr. George Tyndall — sets a record for collegiate sex abuse payouts.

In her decades-long political career, Ms. Feinstein led San Francisco in the wake of political assassinations, kept the C.I.A. accountable for torture and held sway over Supreme Court nominations.

Faced with a massive state surplus and a looming recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed giving two-thirds of Californians some of their tax money back.

A recall candidate hired a bear to draw attention to his campaign to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom, but the bear ended up drawing attention to the bear.

Residents in Davis reported seeing the man, 21, pacing in a park not far from where one of the fatal stabbings occurred. The attacks left two men dead and one woman injured.

Children from kindergarten to 12th grade in both public and private schools will be required to be inoculated against the coronavirus once the F.D.A. gives full approval.

As California officials accused Florida of shipping migrants to its capital city last week, about 20 more people, mostly from Venezuela, arrived on Monday on the same chartered plane.

Tulare Lake re-emerged after intense storms battered the state this winter, and will likely remain in the Central Valley for months — and maybe years — to come.

In California and New York, where mandates for health care workers have gone into effect, many are complying.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall election, he has struggled to connect with Hispanic voters, who make up nearly a third of the electorate.

Ms. Bass, a longtime congresswoman and state lawmaker, defeated Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer, to lead a city where frustration levels are high.

A cold storm has created winter wonderlands in unusual California spots that almost never see snow.

Chaos in the streets and the ubiquity of cellphones have created a disturbing array of videos reflecting violent police behavior.

More than half of California’s nearly 40 million residents live in counties now under the most restrictive measures for businesses and public gatherings.

An analysis of body camera footage shows that one officer appeared to keep his knee on the upper right side of Mr. Gonzalez’s back for 2 minutes 50 seconds.

Two people have died and a third person has been wounded over the course of five days in Davis, Calif. The police said they were uncertain whether only one assailant was involved.

Once a Texas mainstay, Southwest has become a major airline that many Californians rely upon to travel across their vast state.

Rates of coronavirus infection among Latinos have risen rapidly across the United States.

California’s two largest districts made the joint call amid a White House push to get children back into classrooms.

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has quietly given up her Republican registration and re-registered as a no-party preference voter, citing the Kavanaugh U.S. Supreme Court nomination and...

Tech industry investors spent roughly $900 million buying land to build a dream city in a rural part of the Bay Area. It could be years, though, before they can do anything with it.

A federal judge overturned California’s assault weapons ban. State officials vowed to win on appeal, but gun advocates are emboldened by a shifting Supreme Court.

Los Angeles County and the W.H.O. warned that even immunized people should wear masks indoors. Some scientists agreed, but urged a localized approach.

Brandon Tsay, 26, is being credited with preventing further violence by subduing the gunman before he could kill more people.

The president’s visit will add another volley of national Democratic firepower to the governor’s effort to beat back a Republican-led effort to recall him.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing multiple crises. Ninety percent of California is in extreme drought. The median home price has eclipsed $800,000. Some 100,000 people are sleeping outside or in their cars.

As millions of American students head back to their desks, the virus testing that was supposed to help keep classrooms open safely is itself being tested.

Smoke from the Caldor fire is overwhelming one of California’s most iconic regions — and confounding thousands of newcomers who fled there in recent months to escape the coronavirus.

As the Democratic vice-presidential nominee hits the campaign trail, a race to replace her kicks off.

The state has some 700 markets featuring some of the world’s best produce — but it took legislative changes in the 1970s to help them flourish.

As in the “Swiss cheese model” of Covid prevention, a lot of small measures add up.

Low-income Californians faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts.

The Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges still have an abundance of snow, but that won’t last much longer.

By the time Gov. Newsom issued a mandatory order to shelter in place, it was clear that, for a week, this was where things had been inexorably heading. 

Pounding rainstorms following an epic drought leave thousands of broken trees that batter roads, levees and neighborhoods.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation that would provide a minimum $10,000 award to residents who successfully sue makers of illegal guns.

Fellow Democrats have defended Gov. Gavin Newsom, lavishly praising his handling of the pandemic. But conservatives say his shutdowns have been destructive.

The startling discovery that the virus was responsible for a Feb. 6 death in California raises questions about where else it might have been spreading undetected.

Our world and the way we view it don’t just happen. There are people behind our government, our laws, our priorities.

What in the world did California do to Stephen Miller? Did some MS-13 gangbanger beat him up in the bathroom at Santa Monica High School? Did the pretty Latina in AP calculus ditch him at the prom?

As we face yet another summer of towering firestorms and overmatched first responders, it is becoming clear that we must radically improve emergency preparation in California. Summer has been a death...