The Latest Breaking News from Calif

Extreme weather events made worse by climate change are hitting some of the poorest parts of the United States hard. Recovery will be extra difficult at a time of high inflation.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The word got out and the environmental lobby was quick to pounce: After years of silence on the issue, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration was reviving a controversial plan to burrow a tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the fragile hub of California’s water-delivery system.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two weeks after the McKinney fire destroyed more than 100 homes in Siskiyou County, five homeowners sued electric utility PacifiCorp on Tuesday, saying the company’s equipment sparked the deadly fire.

FRESNO, Calif. — Former Congressman TJ Cox of Fresno was arrested Tuesday by the FBI on federal charges of “multiple fraud schemes” in his financial dealings.

OXNARD, Calif. — If we learned one thing about the Dallas Cowboys over the weekend, owner Jerry Jones needs to do something at wide receiver.

WONDER VALLEY, Calif. — Helin Bereket spent hours driving her rental car down the dusty roads just east of Twentynine Palms earlier this year, photographing the abandoned homesteads that littered the desert landscape. The Berlin-based photographer had read online about the forgotten shacks filled with shriveled reminders that they were…

ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The third attempt could be the charm for repairing California's main waterworks, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The speedy annoyance of the baseball mosquito that is Sam Haggerty lighted the fuse. The true nature of a losing team going nowhere slowly revealed itself in the mistake-filled chaos that followed.