The Latest Breaking News from California

The mega-deal Rivian struck with the Volkswagen Group last year brings the electric-vehicle startup that much closer to achieving the kind of escape velocity that only Tesla has reached so far. Volkswagen agreed to inject $5.8 billion into the California-based automaker, with the money arriving in chunks over time. 

Plus: Arkansas legalizes ADUs, activists sue to stop missing middle housing, and Trump's housing plans for federal lands

When the U.S. government chopped $1 billion from USDA programs nationally, a group of farmers in the Central Valley fought back.

Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on foreign films threatens global productions and your wallet.

Now an important tourist site, the California federal penitentiary has been shut for more than six decades.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years

Nicolas Cage has explained how 'The Surfer' relates to his own childhood in California.

Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science lab