The worst of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak — which began in 2024 and infected thousands of birds and dairy cows and dozens of people in the U.S. — may be over in California, state public health officer Dr.

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare County, where she struggles to get from one month to the next.

California health officials are urging residents to avoid eating shellfish harvested recreationally from the coast due to the toxic algae bloom that is poisoning sea life. The California

A heat advisory was issued by the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA on Saturday at 2:43 a.m. in effect until 9 p.m. The advisory is for Santa Clarita Valley, Southern Salinas Valley, Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range,

Expanded federal subsidies that boosted Covered California's enrollment to nearly 2 million people expire at the end of this year.

Air quality alerts often advise sensitive populations such as children to avoid outdoor exposure, but the impacts can be lasting.

On May 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a landmark ruling in California Chamber of Commerce v.

The Kids Code Coalition held a virtual press conference Monday to discuss a proposal in the California legislature that would require warning labels to pop up before social media access and will lock the app access after three hours of scrolling.