When a massive fire erupted at one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities in Monterey County, it didn't just send a toxic plume of smoke over nearby communities — it cast a shadow of doubt over the future of California's clean energy industry.
Rain on the way to parched Southern California on Saturday will aid firefighters mopping up multiple wildfires.
Nine wildfires are currently burning across Southern California as of Friday morning, five of which ignited yesterday.
Last week, as President Donald Trump launched a promised crackdown on immigrants, a subset of the people who could be targeted by those moves are, once again, in limbo. They are long-time American residents currently protected from deportation by the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,
At least 28 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires rage across Southern California.
Newsom and California are frequently the target of Trump’s ire. Some of his most memorable criticisms of the state have been over how it manages its wildlands in the face of wildfire risk. In his first term, Trump suggested California should be “raking” their forests to clean up dead brush and trees.
The visit came the day after a new ballot initiative asking voters whether the state should become an independent country was cleared by the California Secretary of State's office to begin gathering signatures. Could the Golden State just fly the coop, become its own nation and walk away from 175 years of union with the United States?
A Powerball ticket sold in California won $28,258, but just missed the $48 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched four of five winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 25, the California Lottery said.
Crews spent much of the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes and reinforcing roads in devastated areas of the Palisades and Eaton fires, which reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble and ash after breaking out during powerful winds Jan.
A 'Fox News Sunday' panel debates the future of FEMA, President Donald Trump touring North Carolina and California, and the declassification of the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files.