CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire ...

A new study summarizing the 2020 California wildfire year said just over 9,900 wildfires burned 4.3 million acres in 2020. That's twice the previous record but only average compared to burn rates ...

This morning we’ll be sharing our compendium of some of the best California writing of 2020. California contains multitudes. This is a state of 40 million people — a place so big that there have been ...

It was a nightmare fire season that California won’t soon forget. As more than 9,000 wildfires raged across the landscape, a canopy of smoke shrouded much of the state and drifted as far away as ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After strong finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is seeing momentum in his campaign and he's now turning his sights on California. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor ...

Amid a pandemic that left law enforcement agencies stretched thin and forced shutdowns that left young men with little to do, California registered a devastating surge in homicides in 2020 that hit ...

Ten years ago, none of California’s 58 counties counted Asians as their largest ethnic group. Now, two Bay Area counties do: Alameda County, which includes the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, and ...

California's catastrophic wildfires in 2020 put twice as much greenhouse gas emissions into the air as the state's reductions in those same gases over nearly 20 years – erasing gains going back to ...

The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 ...