Commercial developers across Southern California are betting on building housing, retail and other projects on former oil drilling sites.

A California oil field thought to be one of the biggest in the U.S. has been producing much less oil than hoped, according to a report by Alliance Bernstein analyst Bob Brackett. The field, a ...

INDUSTRY THE PAST FEW YEARS, GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM IS CONSIDERING NEW AND SOME MIGHT SAY, SURPRISING ACTION TO KEEP THE COMPANIES OPERATING IN CALIFORNIA. THE STATE FACES THE THREAT OF HIGHER GAS ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

The proposal would allow oil companies to drill new wells, but also require them to abandon and cap existing wells. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is circulating draft bill language that would ...

By then, California was already a leading producer. Farther south, in Los Angeles, oil pumps proliferated on suburban tracts as speculators chased new finds. In 1923, about 1 in 4 barrels of oil ...

On a clear day, the trails winding through West Coyote Hills near Fullerton, California, offer a sweeping view of the mountains rising over Orange County’s suburban sprawl. Over 500 acres of open ...

A year after they broke up via text, California and Chevron finally reconnected by phone. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office made its first-ever call to Chevron’s refining chief last week, days before state ...