The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official who has planned the zealous expansion of President Donald Trump’s power into one of the most ...

Mother Lode Assemblyman David Tangipa argues that the state’s High Speed Rail project will be a modern-day Stonehenge without ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest twist in a chaotic and ...

While Democrats don’t have the Senate votes to tank Trump nominees, they can derail the chamber’s day-to-day functions.

Russell Scofield remembers when federal officials first started getting applications to build solar farms on public lands. It ...

State legislators say the bipartisan bill would support overworked firefighters by addressing staffing issues.

The new National Wildland Firefighting Service would require a specific budget and a Senate-confirmed director.

U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump ...

President Trump’s order to release billions of gallons of water in California’s Central Valley last week — with the purported goal of dousing fires 100 miles away — is being slammed as both ...

During the confirmation hearing for Trump's Director of the FBI nominee, Kash Patel in the Senate this week, Senator Alex Padilla slammed Patel over his qualifications for the position.