SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As Los Angeles reels from deadly January wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order Thursday directing the state to ...

Newsom Wants to Speed up a Delayed Rule to Make California Homes More Fire Resistant ... miles (5,700 square kilometers), of land onto the map of fire-prone areas, which will subject homeowners ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the city unmarked. Entire blocks of homes in Altadena were destroyed ...

Ontario's main party leaders are set to make stops in Toronto and southwestern Ontario today before two of them venture north. Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie is set to make a health-care announcement ...

China's antitrust investigation into Google, which does not offer most of its consumer-facing services including search and email in the country, seems to make little sense on the surface, but ...

This is the first in a series of articles that examines the intricacies of creating and maintaining digital maps by TomTom ... To assist the editor in making the correct decisions the computer display ...

Jan. 8, 5:11 p.m. PSTBiden approves a Major Disaster Declaration for California, making federal funding available to those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles County. Jan. 8, 1:25 p.m. PSTThe ...

Whatever the outcome, the proposal is destined to become yet another battlefield between California’s largely Democrat state government and President Donald Trump’s MAGA federal executive.

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Notwithstanding the remark’s implied cynicism, crises — either real or merely perceived — can make or break political ... Gray Davis became the only California governor to be recalled ...

Google has announced its policy for the naming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali mountain after a controversial presidential executive order Hours after taking office, President Trump ...