The Latest Breaking News from California

A 'polite' brown bear wandered into a shop in California and proceeded to take out snacks of chocolate bars, leaving a shocked cashier barricading a door with a broom. Cashier Christopher Kinson said "it's almost like it had manners"

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — Opening night at the Future Proof wealth festival kicked off with an edict from one of the hosts: "Tomorrow, we rage. Tonight, we drink."

It's the sunny beaches and the Golden Gate that make it onto the postcards. But look at a topographic map of California and you'll see that one of its defining features is the Central Valley, a 450-mile-long basin of agricultural heartland, source of almonds and fruit bound for distant states,…

The Second Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit, underway in Riyadh, witnessed Tuesday the launch of Tammayuz center, which belongs to the “Global AI Corridor” launched by Saudi Aramco in partnership with Beyond Limits, a US-based artificial intelligence company. The center was floated in cooperation with the California Institute of Technology…

Ye Olde King’s Head in Santa Monica, California, will show footage of the historic event.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was a 10-day test of California’s ability to keep the lights on and maintain its green-energy crusade, an unprecedented heat wave that pushed the state’s power grid to the brink of rolling blackouts.

If the Colorado River were to become unusable, Southern California would lose one-third of its water supply. And vast swaths of farmland in the state’s southeastern desert would go unplanted.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new website Tuesday designed to help Californians and those outside the state access abortions — his latest attempt to stymie Republicans’ efforts to curtail the procedure across the country.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crews continue to make steady progress battling the Mosquito fire burning in Placer and El Dorado counties, with officials reporting “great strides” in containment on some sections of the fire amid changing weather conditions.