Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Northern California residents were treated to another rare display of the northern lights in the night sky on Thursday. A strong ...

For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames ...

California is shifting from traditional traffic stops to automated radar systems that can clock a speeding car, capture its license plate and trigger a ticket with little or no human involvement. The ...

For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames ...

Seeing a traffic camera flash as you go through an intersection never leaves a driver feeling good. In California, that sort of thing happens countless times every day, but drivers are starting to ...

The city of Sacramento scrapped its red-light camera program in 2024, but it might not stay gone for long. The system could make a comeback in an unusual form, one that shifts responsibility from the ...

California firefighting has a powerful tool: Alert California. Operated by UC San Diego, the system uses 1,146 cameras to detect fires before they’re visible to the public. KPBS sci-tech reporter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A filmmaker out on an excursion to capture footage of sharks off the Southern California coast last month unexpectedly got the ...