Firefighters are concerned high heat and thunderstorms over the weekend could further fuel the Park fire, already the fourth-largest ever in California.

A 66-mile drive between Ventura and Elysian Park included 70-degree weather, then temperatures pushing 100 and then hail.

Dangerous fire weather is expected across much of California on Friday, as temperatures across the state are expected to rise over the next few days.

California is in the middle of its worst summer COVID wave since 2022, with virus levels and infections surging across the state.

The neurotoxin domoic acid is blamed for the extreme distress and deaths of many sea lions along the Central Coast, as well as the deaths of two dolphins and two seals.

A renewed effort to list burrowing owls under the California Endangered Species Act just cleared an early hurdle. Conservationists say the situation for the owls that nest underground has only gotten worse in recent years.

Mathew Bowyer, whose clients included Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, agrees to plead guilty to federal charges of running an illegal gambling business.

The National Park Service said the falcon species has made a ‘remarkable comeback’ in Yosemite since the 1970s, when there were zero nesting pairs at the park.

L.A. County has agreed to hire an expert to make sure voting sites are accessible to all and to publicize its curbside program, in which workers deliver ballots to voters on the street.

A Santa Cruz County mother is facing multiple felony charges for the death of her infant. Early autopsy reports show the baby was exposed to cocaine and fentanyl.