California leaders wrapped this year’s legislative session Saturday afternoon, prolonged by last-minute backroom deals on climate and energy, sparking deep frustration among some lawmakers.

California officials reported that at least 15 major fires are burning over 350,000 acres on national forest and Bureau of Land Management lands in the state.

The governor’s advisers said they want to raise more than $100 million for the November redistricting campaign. Total spending could top $200 million.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom turns his attention to national politics, it’s difficult to evaluate what effect his extracurricular activities have had on his work, because the governor’s office has not made his full schedule available all year.

Newsom’s office expects to deploy the team within the next month to San Jose and California’s other nine largest cities, to tackle encampments on state property along highway medians and under overpasses.

The proposed redistricting would make minor changes in a half dozen Bay Area congressional districts, and expand the 9th Congressional District westward toward the East Bay to bolster potential support for incumbent Democrat Rep. Josh Harder.

The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, but many Republicans prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is rolling back decades-old emissions standards for cars and trucks and proposing new rules that reverse the “endangerment finding.”

The carpenters' union's stance broke from the powerful Building and Construction Trades Council, which has opposed nearly all proposals to lower hurdles for developers that do not include minimum pay levels and union hiring requirements.

California sent incarcerated firefighters to battle blazes in Los Angeles this year. It’s moving toward paying them minimum wage for their work in emergencies.

No immediate hike in California gas prices will occur but Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature fear the effects of the clean-fuel program.

In a unanimous decision announced Thursday evening, a panel rejected a lower-court’s finding that it was likely illegal for President Trump to use state troops to protect immigration agents from protests.

President Trump and Gov. Newsom have traded sharp insults in recent days as California awaits billions of dollars in federal wildfire relief.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

As the Trump administration considers cutting federal funds to California, Gov. Newsom and other officials suggest withholding taxes from the federal government.

The late-night ruling by the Circuit Court of Appeals delayed until a June 17 hearing the order of a federal judge Thursday afternoon that said President Trump’s decision to order the National Guard into Los Angeles was illegal.