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A federal judge had previously handed the state National Guard back to California Governor Gavin Newsom, but an appeals court said the temporary restraining order went too far.

The design of each house and the layout of the entire subdivision — with healthy buffers between each building and scant flammable vegetation — meet standards set by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety.

The governor hopes cities will pass an ordinance banning "persistent camping in one location" and encampments that block "free passage on sidewalks."

An environmental advocacy group prevailed in its legal challenge to a 2023 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to list two species of Joshua trees as threatened.

The prison has been closed for over 60 years and is now a popular tourist attraction.

A rare straight three years of average snowfall or better in the mountains means it's statistically more likely that a dry year isn't far off.

Assembly Bill 1165 would designate an as-of-yet undetermined amount of money to solve both the state's housing and homelessness crisis.

The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement the closure is meant to reduce entanglement risk to the whales as they forage off the Golden State’s coast.

Trump ordered his attorney general to move against state climate programs that clash with his energy agenda. Legal experts say his claims about the laws being unconstitutional are an overreach.

The state contends that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't actually give the president the power to unilaterally impose tariffs.