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The California fire is unusually intense and unpredictable. But between climate change and the impact of decades of poor management, such wildfires may be the new normal.

Pieces of gravel and dust from a "rock comet" called 3200 Phaethon are still shooting across the sky, dazzling the Earthlings below.

The lack of rain led CalFire to bring on several hundred seasonal firefighters early to staff fire stations from the Sacramento foothills to San Diego County.

The vicious drought gripping the Southwest appears to have a bullseye on New Mexico. Wildfires are burning across the state and water is increasingly scarce. So scare, that early this month one town's well stopped delivering water completely.

The Mexican government has agreed to release additional water into the Rio Grande from its tributaries outside of a 79-year-old water rights treaty in response to a difficult drought.

Bernie Sanders addressed the Democratic National Convention Monday night, after a day of disunity in the Philadelphia arena. Read his speech here.

A hardy breed is helping farmers in one Kenyan village cope with climate change — and put more food on the table.

Tribune Publishing Co., parent of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times, has fired Austin Beutner, the Los Angeles civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker who became publisher and chief executive of the paper last year.

The budget envisions a 6.1 percent spending increase over the current fiscal year. Public hearings on the spending plan are set to begin June 1.

Agriculture, life sciences, brewing and soft drink bottling, dry cleaning and laundry services, food manufacturers and construction could face the impacts because they traditionally use more water than other business sectors.