California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

The Madre Fire that first erupted on July 2 in San Luis Obispo county has reached 80,480 acres and 30% containment, according to the latest update from Los Padres National ...

[Update: Thu., July 3, 5:36pm] The Madre Fire has expanded to 52,593 acres as of 5:17 p.m. on Thursday, still with only 5 ...

RIDGECREST, Calif. – The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposed mining project to extract minerals ...

The Climate Action & Land Equity (CALE) project is working to change that. Through funding from the California Department of Conservation (DOC), CALE builds partnerships and programs to elevate and ...

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors recently amended land-use policies to facilitate the development of visitor-serving establishments in unincorporated South Livermore Valley in an effort to ...

Thousands of new oil wells could be drilled in Kern County annually after a decision from the Kern County Board of ...

Federal forests in San Luis Obispo County are safe for now, but Baker said he expects more federal policies to target public lands while President Donald Trump is in office.

Initial location: Kern County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Stormy A new wildfire was reported today at 11:12 a.m. in Kern County, California. Stormy Fire has been burning on private land.

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Chula A new wildfire was reported today at 7:39 p.m. in Kern County, California. Chula Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service.

Initial location: Kern County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Bella A new wildfire was reported today at 2:20 p.m. in Kern County. Bella Fire has burned one acre of private land.

Staff decided to deny the map amendment request because, in part, it didn’t match up with the county land use plan, Considine said.