Megan Fan Munce

The California official overseeing state fairgrounds has opened doors for a company that wants to revitalize venues by adding data centers and helipads. His daughter works for the firm.

The California Energy Commission unanimously passed a first-of-its-kind standard on the fuel efficiency of replacement tires — a requirement it says could save drivers $1 billion per year.

As his time as governor comes to an end, Gavin Newsom is wading back into the same thorny political thicket he found himself in when he was first elected: California’s wildfire liability.

A California developer wants to build a data center half as big as Levi’s Stadium. The county put a moratorium on data center approvals — and got sued.

In the waning days of the California legislative session, insurers and utilities are engaged in a titanic battle over who will pay for wildfire costs — and pass them on to customers.

The lawsuit focuses particularly on people with smoke-damaged homes. State Farm said it “strongly disagrees” with the characterizations in the suit.

Technicians collect a sample from a crawl space beneath a home that survived the Eaton Fire. California is poised to enact new laws that would regulate how homes that survive wildfires are tested and cleaned.

PG&E CEO Patti Poppe, seen in 2025, said the company would cut about 15% of its planned investments for 2027 following the failure of wildfire liability reform in the California Legislature.

The insurer is seeking a small rate increase, as a condition of resuming writing new home policies.

Regular home insurance doesn’t cover all of the impacts of winter storms. If you want a flood insurance policy ahead of El Niño, the time to get it is now.