Julie Cart | Piedmont Exedra

Drones, satellites and AI: How California fights its unpredictable wildfires with analytics

With climate change warming average overnight temperatures and intensifying droughts, past models predicting fire behavior have become unreliable.

After unanimously clearing the Senate, a bill expanding first responders’ access to workers’ comp for PTSD moves to the Assembly.

Automakers face global challenges obtaining battery materials, including China’s stranglehold on the industry and mining in Africa.

Homeowners to get smaller payments from utilities, but new state incentives will be available.

CPUC’s scaled-back plan eliminates consumer fees, following criticism.

The state can expedite approval of renewable energy projects but rural counties say they already do their part with solar and wind farms.

Thousands of overworked California firefighters carry a heavy load of trauma, pain and grief. They leave a fire but the fire never leaves them.

The 112-square-mile Randall Preserve provides a haven for wildlife and a living laboratory for scientists.

As the drought dries up California’s wetlands, traveling birds are struggling to survive and breed.

Lightning strikes often ignite deadly, unpredictable and remote wildfires in Northern California.