Firefighters made progress over the last day at containing the huge Mountain Fire in Ventura County, California, which has destroyed dozens of homes.

The region northwest of Los Angeles has seen some of California’s most destructive fires over the years. The Mountain Fire swiftly grew from less than half a square mile (about 1.2 square kilometers) ...

Several thousand volunteers are expected to place miniature American flags alongside nearly 225,000 graves at Riverside ...

In the year to July 2022, the population of California declined by 0.3 percent, while the U.S. population as a whole grew and some Republican-controlled states such as Florida and Texas saw ...