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PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.

An air tanker drops fire retardant on a blaze in Malibu driven by Santa Ana winds in October 2007.

A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to get married, saying legislators did not go far enough when they approved same-sex civil unions that were identical to ...

The 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest that is popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels is also home to some of the most intensely polluted pockets of wilderness in America, according to federal ...

OUR favorite way of looking at the current societal discussion about who has the right to marry whom is the simplest one: If two people love each other, and want to sanctify that love through ceremony and ...

A new study says an outbreak of wildfires in California last year worsened smog pollution in rural areas and caused levels to spike above federal air quality standards.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says private donors have raised $25 million to help the state protect the Sierra Nevada.

ATWATER, Calif. - At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger thought he had sealed one of the most ambitious health care overhauls in the nation's history.

His administration spent months brokering a deal with Republicans, Democrats and divergent interest groups, then watched as it passed the state Assembly with bipartisan support. When the plan went to the Senate, Schwarzenegger thought he had the backing of the Democratic leader, Don Perata.

It wasn't long before the painstakingly assembled plan unraveled and lay dead in committee.

Mormons living outside California have been asked to volunteer for a telephone campaign to help pass a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in the state.

Whales may simply have to pay the price as the Navy prepares for war, Supreme Court justices suggested today.

Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for discovering and developing a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and ...

The casinos run by American Indian tribes in Northern California work to attract lonely seniors on fixed incomes by offering cheap transportation on charter buses like the one that crashed over the weekend, ...

A trip to a posh California resort by bailout beneficiary AIG drew the ire of a House panel chairman and a rebuke from the Democratic presidential candidate.

Governor Schwarzenegger is calling legislative leaders back to the Capitol today to address California's mounting financial problems.

With four weeks to go before a statewide vote on same-sex marriage, a study has found that 3,800 gay couples are marrying each month in California.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the state's growing budget crisis and his request for a loan from the federal government so the state can continue to pay its bills.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Tuesday of future cuts to the state budget that was signed into law just two weeks ago and insisted something must be done to address California's mounting financial problems.

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that the presidential candidates should end the smear campaigns and get back to the issues.

Mortgage lender Countrywide has reached a settlement designed to provide up to $8.68 billion in relief to borrowers, California's Attorney General announced today.