The Bureau of Land Management has revived its effort to open more of California’s public lands to oil drilling and fracking.

A conservative group representing Santa Barbara County royalty owners filed a lawsuit this week challenging California’s ...

This month’s resumption of oil-field permitting by Kern government has so far lived up to high expectations, say county and ...

The brother and sister say that California has violated their Fifth Amendment rights, as it's taken their property without proper compensation.

U.S. President Donald Trump has taken the first formal step toward reopening offshore oil and gas leasing off California ...

The Trump administration is pushing forward a decades-old proposal to open up 850,000 acres of Central California to new oil ...

Mahan threatens to further dilute the Democratic vote, which is spread so thin that polling excluding Mahan has repeatedly ...

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Doctors, veterans fear near-total abortion ban at VA could put women’s health at risk ...

With the NFL regular season behind us, let’s reveal our final report cards for every first-round pick from the 2025 NFL draft ...

A long-simmering clash between California lawmakers and oil and gas interests is escalating again, as mineral rights holders ...