LOS ANGELES -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden State.

The youngest person to pass the California bar exam is now Tulare County's newest deputy district attorney. Sophia Park ...

The City of Porterville broke ground Thursday on a new park thanks to a $7.8 million grant from the California State Parks ...

Tulare Lake, formerly the largest freshwater body west of the Mississippi River, has returned to California's San Joaquin Valley after unprecedented snowfall and storms flooded the region last spring.

California reservoirs are expected to continue rising through the spring as snowmelt supplements the water levels.

Utility maps of wildfire risk need updating, says the California Public Advocate—and utilities agree. State regulators voted them down.

Cal Fire has released new fire hazard severity zone maps for public review and comment, including maps for Tulare County ... While the California Department of Insurance assures that the maps ...

Most of California will have a hot, dry summer. according to the Old Farmer's Almanac's long-range weather forecast. After last year marked one of the hottest summers to date, the Old Farmer's ...

However, drought maps also reported parts Southern California are in extreme drought ... of the month at the state’s largest reservoir, Lake Shasta, north of Redding, according to the National ...

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS ... one is that the Army Corps was aware that the release of this water into Tulare Lake would not reach the city of Los Angeles. It would have taken significantly ...

An 80-year-old California man is accused of allegedly shooting and killing another man in what police in Northern California called a "turkey hunting" incident. In a Facebook post Monday ...