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Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium from geothermal brine, salty water that has been overlooked and pumped back underground since the region’s first geothermal plant opened in 1982.

The number of businesses fleeing California is on the rise.

Hollywood megadonors are bankrolling Gavin Newsom's campaign to stave off a recall, with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings giving a whopping $3 million.

Some 175 artifacts and mementos from the Prohibition Era, including his favorite guns, vintage prints featuring the infamous crime lord with various members of his family, letters written by Capone to his son while at Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary.

A Bay Area booze distributor accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to get her son into the University of Southern California — and then bragging that it was “worth every cent” — has agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige is urging tourists not to travel to the islands due to a surge in coronavirus cases amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.

Top destinations for Californians leaving include Texas, Arizona and Nevada.

Utility firm Pacific Gas & Electric warned some customers in Northern California that it may have to “proactively turn off power for safety” this week amid weather conditions that increased the risk of wildfires in the region.

As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops.

Los Angeles prosecutors say the son of a Bank of America executive discovered his mom’s body inside her home after she had been beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend.

California farmers say they're struggling as drought conditions continue to worsen on the West coast. Consumers could soon see prices rise and the supply of produce could be impacted.

Two Los Angeles County deputies left badly wounded after a gunman ambushed them in their parked patrol vehicle last September are now suing a Nevada-based gun maker.

Washington is offering free weed, New Jersey is offering free beer, and now Utah is offering free ground beef for residents who get a COVID-19 vaccine.

At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.

Glenrock, population 2,600, is one of four towns under consideration for Bill Gates' TerraPower nuclear plant

Aon PLC and Willis Towers Watson PLC abandoned a more than $30 billion tie-up to create the world’s largest insurance broker.

A former California state employee has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Treasurer Fiona Ma.

Utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) told California officials that its equipment may be responsible for one of the large fires ongoing in the state.

"Given that SpaceX and Blue Origin employees have sophisticated high-tech skills with presumably high income, the impacted small community real estate market will clearly benefit," NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun told FOX Business.

California's legislature has passed a bill that will approve monthly payments with no restrictions to foster kids when they age out, and for pregnant women.