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In mid-November, we saw something come to life in the Western world that many of us have been talking about for years. A coordinated attack of Islamic terrorists devastated Paris, resulting in more than 100 dead. Several weeks later, two ...

Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in California. The recent story of Brittany Maynard, a young newlywed diagnosed with brain cancer who moved from California to Oregon so she could use that state’s system of legal suicide, prompted the California legislature ...

The most earthquake-prone place on Earth is not California or any nation in the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire,” but instead Oklahoma. The Sooner State now has more earthquakes than places surrounding the San Andreas Fault and even Japan, state ...

Beachgoers in Oceanside, California, recently were eager to sign a petition banning the discussion of religion and politics in public. Seemingly average Americans approached by media analyst and prankster Mark Dice were willing to sign petitions banning people from talking ...

California’s mega-drought is even worse than we thought. A new scientific study found that the Golden State has not been this dry in 500 years — since the 16th century. The last time drought conditions were this bad in California, ...

All handguns in Los Angeles homes will have to be locked up or disabled with a trigger lock under a new ordinance unanimously approved by the city council this week. A similar proposal already is law in San Francisco, and ...

East Porterville, California, has become the first community in the nation to lose something most Americans take for granted – running water. Wells at around 1,000 of the 1,200 homes in the Central Valley community have gone dry because of ...

Local governments now have the right to tell you how to store your guns thanks to the inaction of the US Supreme Court. The court Monday refused to hear an appeal of a US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling ...

After he announced statewide mandatory water cuts on April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown was criticized for exempting farmers, who use 80 percent of California’s developed water supply. “They’re not watering their lawn or taking long showers,” Brown told ABC ...

The past few years have been hopelessly dry when it comes to precipitation, especially for our fellow off-the-gridders in the West, Southwest and Plains regions of the U.S. In fact, climate scientists are even calling this particular rainless period a ...