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Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a bill to lower the retirement age and sweeten pension perks for police and firefighters despite overwhelming support in the Legislature.

‘It keeps coming back to haunt us.’ Battery fire at Moss Landing ignites before California regulators finish investigating the last one

California police and firefighters will be able to retire earlier and earn more generous pensions under a bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom. It’s potentially expensive and government agencies are urging him to veto it.

As fire season takes hold, California is managing fuels and fire on federal lands. Can California keep it up?

California, which is having an unusually quiet fire summer, has deployed engines and crews to fight fires raging in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest — but even this well-resourced state continues to feel vulnerable.

After wildfires, any recovery reform must put victims ahead of hedge funds, trial attorneys, insurance companies and other profiteers, a Creek Fire survivor says.

California's wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse.

California police and fire unions are backing bills that would create new retirement benefits or raise pay. Lawmakers approved them overwhelmingly.

During the LA-area fires, Jose Angel Amezcua, an inmate firefighter, was where he was supposed to be — helping save the communities he had harmed.

Since 2019 California has spent $450 million on a new 911 system. This year the Newsom administration declared it unworkable and will start over.