Gray wolves once disappeared from California in the 1920s due to overhunting. In 2011, one wolf made its way from Oregon to Northern California and by 2015, a pack descended from that wolf, the ...

The Department of Homeland Security has labeled over 500 cities and counties, many of them in California, as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” escalating the conflict between the federal government ...

When California became a state in 1850, it had fewer than 100,000 residents and 27 sparsely populated counties. Several were larger in land area than some states.