The fire sparked in the Los Padres National Forest in San Luis Obispo County and was growing exponentially, officials warned. The area is mostly uninhabited.

The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

A California wildfire that started on Wednesday afternoon continues to burn, having destroyed over 35,000 acres as of Thursday afternoon, with only a tiny portion contained. California has already been hit with massive wildfires this year,

Nine months after first proposing to increase the annual amount allocated to California's film and TV tax credit program, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed it into law.

D: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has now signed the bill, saying in a statement from his office that it would “further strengthen the state's commitment to film and television production.” See the fuill text here.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a legal opinion stating that daily fantasy contests are illegal in the state "because they involve betting on sporting events."

Rob Bonta's legal opinion classified daily fantasy sports as illegal gambling, claiming that players betting against each other violates state law.

The California attorney general declared daily fantasy sports illegal in a long-awaited opinion released Thursday afternoon, though the decision was met with putback from Gov. Gavin Newsom as well as the sports betting industry.