The cost of a college degree is soaring in California, where public universities were once free. What happened? And what can be done?

A 1,223-page document, obtained by The Times, details how endangered California salmon could be imperiled by Trump administration changes to state water operations.

Former deputy Interior secretary David J. Hayes discusses how rollbacks to the law fit with the administration’s disdain for environmental regulation.

A high-tech survey of 450 estuaries along the West Coast found that 85% of the tidal wetlands that once existed in California, Oregon and Washington has disappeared, including huge swaths of once-lush wildlife habitat around San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The president and his Interior Department undermine the landmark Endangered Species Act in the service of “energy dominance.”

The Trump administration’s decision to weaken the widely supported law has drawn sweeping condemnation from conservationists.

On Monday, the Trump Administration announced sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act, a move that conservation advocates say will greatly weaken the historic legislation and push more species toward extinction.

Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan on Sunday had to explain why sweeping immigration raids haven’t affected…