Climate

HOOD, Calif. —  In the heart of California, at the place where two great rivers converge beneath the Tule fog, lies the linchpin of one of the largest water supply systems …

As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more than 200 state parks, including popular destinations near …

This year’s destructive winter storms in California have prompted the Internal Revenue Service to once again push back its deadlines for filing returns and paying taxes owed — but just …

It’s been a rough few months for electric cars. Maybe you’ve seen the headlines: falling sales in California, layoffs at electric truck-maker Rivian, cutbacks in production at Ford and GM. …

Conservationists are hoping to purchase a spring-fed woodsy hollow in Laurel Canyon that was a hot spot for rockers in the patchouli-scented 1960s. The only catch is the seller says …

Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of the planet’s climate system is in gradual decline and could one day reach a tipping point that would radically alter …

If the coast of California is a state asset worth trillions of dollars — and it is — why is the state agency that has successfully protected that asset for …

An “apocalyptic” mass mortality event that has left thousands of sea lions and sea elephants dead on the beaches of South America is raising alarms among some California sea mammal …

Federal officials have ordered operators of Chiquita Canyon landfill to take immediate steps to protect human health and the environment, saying the smoldering Castaic facility poses an imminent danger to …

Concerns that California might remain in a “snow drought” this winter have eased after a series of storms this month blanketed the Sierra Nevada with a near-average amount of snow …