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Shaina Clorfeine could play soccer, but one day, her dad asked her to try kicking a football through the uprights…and she made a field goal from 30 yards. Now Clorfeine is the kicker on the varsity football team at her school in La Cañada Flintridge, California. She spoke with LX News host Ashley Holt about making the team, and finding...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent wildfires that are getting bigger and more destructive from climate change.

The Bureau of Land Management projects a 34% chance that Lake Powell’s water levels will fall below the minimum level necessary to generate power in 2023.

California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks.

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The California recall election reinforced the state’s political divisions with most support in coastal areas and urban centers and far fewer voters in the rural north and agricultural inland.

The legalization movement that brought upmarket marijuana shops to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco is now focused on psychedelic drugs.

Fire crews are using an aluminum protective covering to try and save homes exposed to wildfire in California.

Two of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s children were tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to the Governor’s Office.

California firefighters are wrapping the bases of several sequoias, including the world’s largest tree, in fireproof aluminum blankets as a blaze approaches.

The data backs up California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statement that his decisive victory in the recall election is a win for Covid vaccines and science.

Firefighters have wrapped the base of the world’s largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they try to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

With flames advancing toward the signature grove of ancient massive trees in Sequoia National Park, firefighters Thursday fought fire with fire

At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom beat back a recall election that could have removed him, his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature said they will seek changes to make it more difficult to challenge a sitting governor.

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After California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s historic victory against a GOP-led recall effort Tuesday, lawmakers are looking to reform the process. 

Some Republicans had worried that fraud claims ahead of Tuesday’s election from some party leaders could suppress turnout.

“‘No’ is not the only thing that was expressed tonight,” said Newsom, who won support from more than 60% of the vote.

The odds are looking pretty good for California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, says NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain. Democrats’ branding of the race as a “Republican recall” could work – it was a point that President Joe Biden hammered home while speaking for Newsom in the Golden State this week.