CALIFORNIA

At least 11 people were killed so far, while more than 100,000 acres of land have been destroyed.

At least 11 people were killed after sixteen fires raged through Northern California this week.

The destruction wrought in Yuba County was captured by a number of reporters and residents who recorded the horrific state that the Californian county had been reduced to.

At least 1,000 homes in the area were evacuated as the fire tore through 800 acres of land.

Wildfires move quickly with dry air and high winds and blow out toxic smoke.

Some 57,000 acres of land were destroyed by fires as of Monday afternoon.

“We've got to change this”: The divisive question of how to achieve health care for all will be taken up in hearings over the next months.

The lack of affordable units fuels inequality, sprawl, toxic emissions that overheat the planet, increased homelessness and what the Census Bureau recently targeted as the highest poverty rate in the nation.

As many as 2,000 died.

Trying to undo Proposition 13, the ballot initiative that slashed state property taxes in 1978, is considered the “third rail” of California politics. The Make It Fair coalition wants to give it a try.

More than 20 years after Prop 209 banned racial considerations in state university admissions, black and Latino lawmakers plan to make repeal an issue in next year's gubernatorial race.

Free college tuition used to be the norm; now it's a radical political position.

Monterey County voters bucked oil’s well-funded opposition and approved “Measure Z,” prohibiting fracking and other well-stimulation methods within the county’s boundaries. Environmentalists and community activists hope to get the rest of the state to follow suit.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel compared the success of the Snapchat Spectacle to the success of Apple's very first iPod.

The Playboy impresario was 91 when he died.

In California, an attempt to lower the body count with a bill that would have legalized “supervised injection.”

“I’m going to make him the best basketball player ever,” LaVar Ball said.

O.J. Simpson has four living children.

A new rockfall occurred Thursday, a day after a similar slab fell from the cliff face and killed one person and injured another.

The armed suspect held a DASH store worker at gunpoint and later returned with a machete.

The famed publisher didn't own the renowned estate at the time of his death.