Julie Watts is a national-award-winning investigative correspondent for CBS News, covering California. Her investigations, Capitol accountability reports, and solutions-oriented journalism air weekly ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the allocation of $35 million in state funding to support illegal immigrants as the Trump administration carries out its massive deportation agenda. Newsom's ...

Truckee, California — Survivors tried to unbury their friends when an avalanche struck a group of backcountry skiers near Lake Tahoe in Northern California earlier this week, according to new ...

California’s fuel market is entering another period of strain as refinery capacity continues to shrink in the nation’s largest gasoline market. The planned closure of Valero’s Benicia refinery, one of ...

California is increasingly importing gasoline through the Bahamas — a workaround to a 106-year-old US shipping law that forces domestic fuel shipments onto costly American vessels. More than 40% of ...

California has regained its bragging-rights ranking as the world’s fourth-largest economy. Using gross domestic product as the scorecard, my spreadsheet compared fresh state-level data for the third ...

California officials have launched the most ambitious water‑management overhaul in state history, introducing the California Water Plan 2028 with a landmark goal: developing nine million acre‑feet of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California coast is bracing for heavy thunderstorms on Monday that could lead to dangerous flash flooding and debris flows. A ...

As a deep plume of moisture makes its way inland across the West Coast, a multitude of hazards could arise this week, ranging from localized flooding and tornadoes to feet of snow in the mountains and ...

California gas prices have increased by almost 40 cents in the past month, according to data by the American Automobile Association (AAA), growing four times as fast as the national average. As of ...

California’s largest transportation funding source, the fuel tax, is living on borrowed time. The growing number of fuel-efficient vehicles, hybrids and electric vehicles on the state’s roads means ...