One of California’s rarest mammals will get critical habitat protections following legal ruling.

A contract aircraft company has identified the second pilot killed in the weekend crash of a firefighting helicopter in Yosemite National Park as Ryan Cutter. The Super Puma helicopter crash Sunday afternoon also killed pilot Greg King.

Republican mayors in Fresno County say they can’t afford to lose a sales tax to fund transportation projects in their rural cities.

California is crafting weaker heat protections for prisons than other workplaces, citing billions in costs to cool aging institutions as climate and health risks increase.

“Too often, our Native American history is treated as just something we read in a history book.”