The California Conservation Corps, started in 1976 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, has a current roster of 1,634 members, mostly between the ages of 18 and 29, who typically serve for about a year.

California Conservation Corps work 24 hour shifts in triple digit heat to protect homes from wildfires. For a snapshot of the climate crisis unfolding, look no further than California.

California’s Proposition 39, which awarded $1.7 billion for clean energy and efficiency upgrades in California schools, proved to be a source of funds to establish an Energy Corps within the CCC ...

The California Conservation Corps is celebrating its 40th year anniversary this summer. Since 1976, the state agency has fought fires, battled floods and helped with recovery after major storms ...

Decades later, California Gov. Jerry Brown used a similar model when he launched the California Conservation Corps while serving his first two terms in the 1970s and 1980s.

"For over three decades, the California Conservation Corps has offered job training to thousands of once aimless young men and women and then put them to work planting forests, building trails and ...

A federal judge overturned the approval of a mixed-use project in Chico, Calif., because of threatened species of flower and ...

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The crews who will protect your homes from flooding this winter visited the delta -- to demonstrate how they'll respond to floods, especially if the promise of El Niño brings continued rain.

Another Civilian Conservation Corps? It's needed in fire-ravaged California. The CCC proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 became one of the most popular programs in the New Deal. It ...