A Nevada-based surrogate mother thought she was helping a Chinese couple “longing for a miracle baby” when she delivered a child for them. Now she’s one of a number of surrogates fighting for answers ...

A farmer sweeps almonds into windrows at an orchard in Modesto. Small farms in the San Joaquin Valley innovate daily but need affordable ag‑tech, bilingual training and equipment sharing to both ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm welcome a new puppy traveling from California to Vermont. Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to ...

Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked.

When police walked into a sprawling Arcadia mansion over the summer, they expected to check on a single injured child. Instead, they say they found 21 children living inside, all reportedly born to ...

Nearly 7,000 abandoned sites on California’s public lands likely an underestimate, according to nonprofit Integral Ecology Research Center. The team knows of only 587 that have been at least partly ...

Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain will be hiring hundreds of workers for their Southern California theme parks in the 2026 season. The week-long hiring blitz will take place from Feb. 14 ...

A prominent Southern California farm owner charged with killing his estranged wife will remain in jail for now on $5.5 million bond and must be on electronic monitoring if he is released, a judge ...

California regulators are set to vote on the Bay-Delta Plan, which would limit water diversions to protect the state's ecosystems. The plan could reduce water supplies for agriculture, potentially ...