Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them.

State Farm, the largest insurance company in California, has asked state regulators to immediately approve a steep rate hike for homeowners to prevent a “dire situation” for its customers and ...

Two people were critically injured Wednesday when their small plane crashed in California, authorities said. A Cirrus SR22 aircraft went down near Santa Barbara Airport around 2.15 p.m. local time ...

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The California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) is pushing back on President Trump’s recent claim that the U.S. military entered the state and “turned on the water” in the wake of ...

The first significant storm of the season brought snow and downpours to Southern California that doused wildfires and caused some ash and mud to flow across streets in the Los Angeles area on Monday.

President Trump has signed an order directing federal agencies to “maximize” water deliveries in California and “override” state policies if necessary. Trump’s executive order outlines ...

The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday. By Zach Montague and Catrin Einhorn ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the federal government to override the state of California's water-management practices to bolster firefighting efforts.

LOS ANGELES—Southern California’s first significant storm in more than six months brought snow to the mountains and drenching rains to areas leveled by wildfires in the last two weeks ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom waiting for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to disembark from Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport AP A “Calexit” initiative ...