Northern California

Commentary Two measures regarding property taxes are up for a vote in California on Nov. 3. Both have the power to change society. Under Proposition 15, property taxes for many ...

Some 110,000 Californians bought firearms during the first five months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with fear of "lawlessness" ...

Commentary Wells Fargo and Bank of America, two of America’s four largest banks (along with Citibank and JPMorgan ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Apple announced the latest iPhones and HomePod at an online Apple Event on Oct. 13. In ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—Immense pumpkins waited in trucks and on trailers for their turn at the scale, with ...

Commentary Lives have been lost, and homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by this year’s devastating wildfires in ...

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco is one of the bluest parts of a blue state, so a local boat parade ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Moving trucks are in high demand in San Francisco. “It was all quiet. [The store] was closing ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order (pdf) this week calling for the conservation of 30 percent of the ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office urged state residents on Oct. 3 to wear face masks “in between bites” ...

Commentary The economic evidence of a pandemic-related exodus from large cities continues to grow. Rents for a one-bedroom ...

SAN FRANCISCO—The staggering scale of California's wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres. ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Many Asian Americans gathered at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to condemn the Chinese Communist Party ...

CALISTOGA, Calif.—California fire crews deploying water-dropping helicopters made a defensive stand on Friday against flames raging in the ...

A Zoom "strike," in which parents withdrew their children from distance learning, swept across California the week of ...

SAN FRANCISCO—California is poised to hit a fearsome milestone: 4 million acres burned this year by wildfires that ...

Commentary Walt Disney Co. has announced it will lay off off 28,000 domestic employees in its Parks, Experiences ...

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.—The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) unveiled its newest tool to combat California’s raging wildfires, at ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would make an ethnic studies course focusing on racial ...

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CALISTOGA, Calif.—Firefighters in Northern California on Tuesday struggled to make headway against two wildfires, one of them threatening ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrote a letter Sept. 28 to California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—A northern California wildfire raging in the foothills of the Cascade range has claimed three lives, ...

Billionaire bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach said Saturday that he is contemplating leaving California state and moving to ...

Commentary Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego, and "the Inland Empire" have many similarities in their economies ...

A high school student in Colusa, California, said his teacher threatened to remove him from a virtual classroom ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in several counties due to several wildfires that have ...