Eight years after the 2017 Nuns-Tubbs wildfires, killing more than 20 people, Sonoma County Emergency Management Dep. Director Sam Wallis said there are similarities, and takeaways, for Texas.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vowed to “fight fire with fire” should Texas move ahead with redrawing congressional districts to protect the Republican majority during the midterm elections.

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference about redistricting at the Governor’s Mansion in downtown Sacramento on Friday, July 25, 2025, after meeting with Texas lawmakers about Republican plans to redraw districts in that state. DANIEL HEUER [email protected]

After meetings with Democrats from the Texas House, Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker suggested their states could counter a gerrymander by Texas Republicans.

U.S. Marshals agents in Waco arrested Cristino Rocha on Tuesday and he was booked into McLennan County jail the same day

The two biggest states in the union have been feuding for decades. And, yes, it’s gotten as petty as you’d expect.

Two days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rainmaker took off in an airplane about 100 miles away and dispersed 70 grams of silver iodide into a cloud.