State officials have voted to permanently protect populations that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay Area and the ...

State fish and game officials declared mountain lions in the Central Coast and Southern California threatened under the state ...

The imperiled mountain lions of Central and Southern California were granted permanent protection on Thursday, Feb. 12, by the California Fish and Game Commission. By deeming six populations of pumas ...

The classification means greater habitat protection for California's mountain lions.

Wildlife officials have collared a Sierra Nevada red fox for the first time in the region, a potentially historic moment for ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Friday, the California Fish and Wildlife Department approved a permit that allows all of Catalina Island’s mule ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave Desert, protecting more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes ...

A man from Sacramento trains dogs to avoid rattlesnakes. That's gotten him into a regulatory snarl.

Fire ants are spreading across southern counties, bringing sharper health risks, farm damage, and tougher choices on control today ...

Why aren’t cash-strapped house hunters flocking to condos, Southern California’s relative housing bargain? My trusty spreadsheet reviewed Attom sales data for the six-county region from November 2025 ...

Another earthquake and a series of aftershocks rocked Southern California overnight Wednesday. The 4.2-magnitude quake struck only 6 miles northeast of Indio shortly after midnight, the same area ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...