We need these facilities,” said Assemblywoman Dawn Addis, a Democrat from Morro Bay, where voters in November rejected an ...

Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking away from a ...

Rancho Palos Verdes is moving toward the ocean about 80 times faster than it was in 2022, “more than enough to put human life ...

The UCLA economists’ highest estimate — equivalent to more than three times LA County’s annual budget — would rank the wildfire toll second only to Hurricane Katrina, which swept through New ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

If you’ve lived in California long enough, you are probably familiar with the fire threat Santa Ana winds pose. However, ...

Residents describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is ...

These parks are classrooms where visitors can engage with the state’s rich history, diverse cultures and pressing ...

How are local governments in Santa Cruz County preparing for an estimated sea-level rise of up to 7 feet by 2100?

It’s getting tougher for Californians to get and keep fire insurance, writes Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin, and it’s not just people living in fire-prone, forested areas like Bonny Doon and ...