The Wolf fire in Riverside County is now more than 2,400 acres in size, although firefighters are making progress.

Firefighters battle flames from the Wolf Fire in Banning, Calif., on Sunday, June 29, 2025, as residents were forced to evacuate.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

California lawmakers have rolled back portions of a landmark state environment law to make it easier to build new housing in urban areas.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, signed Monday evening the most significant rollback in decades to California’s core environmental law that’s long been blamed for construction delays and soaring prices that have increasingly put housing out of reach for the state’s residents.

The Trump administration sent the soldiers back to state command, allowing them to return to firefighting work. Thousands remain under federal control.

The Trump administration recently approved a request from the military commander of the National Guard troops deployed to respond to immigration-related unrest in the Los Angeles area to return some of the troops to California's command.

The top military commander in charge of troops deployed to Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returne

No immediate hike in gas prices will occur and experts say the future impact is uncertain because it depends on how much the oil industry spends on buying credits and then passes it onto consumers. The previous fuel standard,

California drivers will pay a little more to fill up their tanks. The state's gasoline excise taxincreased from 59.6 cents to 61.2 cents per gallon - a change required by law and tied to inflation. A separate policy update under California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard is also now in effect,