If you came home to find your front porch in a state of disarray, you might worry somebody had broken into your home. But for one Northern California homeowner, the mess on the porch had a much ...

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

THE CALIFORNIA Department of Fish and Wildlife is gearing up to capture various wild animals in Northern California and outfit them with GPS collars to better track them, the agency said. Deer, elk ...