Tehachapinews.com

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

Gov. Jerry Brown looked back at what he called a "remarkable" year and outlined his vision for California in 2013 Thursday morning during his annual State of the State address. Full Text: 2013 State of the State Address High-speed rail, education finances...

Kern County may require a major developer in its growing wind energy sector to track the radio signatures of California condors and shut down wind turbines if they threaten the endangered birds. As the species rebounds from near-extinction, county environmental...

The blaze (pictured) began Friday afternoon near Bear Valley Springs, a gated community of 7,500 in the Tehachapi Mountains. It remained at zero per cent containment Saturday afternoon.

The 141-mile section from Bakersfield to L.A. will travel over two mountain ranges and more than half a dozen earthquake faults. Experts see it as the project of the century. Civil War veteran William Hood arrived at the mosquito-infested swamps near...