After a decade of intense debating California overhauls CEQA, its landmark environmental law with hopes of making the state more affordable to live.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, signed Monday evening the most significant rollback in decades to California’s core environmental law that’s long been blamed for construction delays and soaring prices that have increasingly put housing out of reach for the state’s residents.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

A warehouse storing fireworks in California caught fire and exploded Tuesday, sending a fireball into the air, launching debris, and causing pyrotechnics to detonate above the site, according to offic

Evacuations are underway after multiple explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire in Northern California's Yolo County, officials said.

A fireworks facility in Esparto (Yolo County) exploded Tuesday afternoon, triggering a massive fire and sending a plume of smoke tens of thousands of feet into the sky, according to local authorities.

The Merced County Sheriff's Office rescued over 100 cats from a U-Haul van and arrested a 69-year-old Long Beach woman for animal cruelty.

More than 130 cats—many malnourished, and some already dead—were discovered crammed inside a sweltering U-Haul van.

A Southern California woman was arrested and faces 93 counts of animal cruelty after deputies found 106 emaciated cats and 28 dead cats in a U-Haul van on Sunday in Santa Nella. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office identified the owner of the cats as 69-year-old Jeannie Maxon from Long Beach.

The Trump administration sent the soldiers back to state command, allowing them to return to firefighting work. Thousands remain under federal control.

The Trump administration recently approved a request from the military commander of the National Guard troops deployed to respond to immigration-related unrest in the Los Angeles area to return some of the troops to California's command.

The top military commander in charge of troops deployed to Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returne