San Francisco’s ranking as a best-performing large city dropped 99 places from 27 to 126, the steepest decline of any metro area in the annual report. Two metro areas in California's San Joaquin ...

California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) As firefighters were battling the largest blazes, additional fires broke out in the Los Angeles area. Crews were able to stop the forward spread and ...

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra Syphard, a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Parts of Northern California are set to get a new area code at the end of the month. According to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), a new 837 area code will be ...

There have been more than a dozen wildfires in Southern California since Jan. 1, mostly in the greater Los Angeles area. -The latest started late Monday in a dry riverbed in Oxnard, about 55 miles ...

It was California's worst year for hotel production in a decade. New hotel development fell sharply across California in 2024, particularly in the Bay Area. A year-end survey released this week ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images A man stands amid the rubble of his parents’ home, destroyed during the Palisades Fire, in Pacific Palisades on JAn. 9, 2025.

SAN JOSE — Hotel development nosedived in California and the Bay Area in 2024, fresh evidence the statewide lodging market may still be affected by economic conditions following a global ...

As a result, rescue organizations in the Bay Area are taking in Southern California dogs that were up for adoption before the fire, to make room in those L.A. shelters for dogs that are lost or ...

Shelters from around the greater Bay Area are taking in cats ... to take in more pets from Southern California as needed. Pets from the Los Angeles area have also been transported in recent ...