Gov. Gavin Newsom faces what may be his greatest political test and leadership challenge. He planned to greet President Trump upon his arrival in Southern California on Friday.

It is the strongest response Newsom has made so far in the week since the fires first erupted in the Los Angeles area.

The California Coastal Commission, the oft-controversial body tasked with protecting the state’s coast, is again in the crosshairs of Musk and congressional Republicans, who’ve raised alarms that residents with homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire are in store for a permitting nightmare if they try to rebuild.

Commissioners at the time cited SpaceX’s history of workplace-related ... R-Corona, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat — to weigh in as critical of the commission. “I’m with Elon ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and tech billionaire Elon Musk have found common ground with their shared disdain for a controversial state agency – and Republicans are misrepresenting the governor's position as they threaten to withhold disaster aid.

The California Governor shared a video of Musk speaking with a command team about water availability to tackle the historic ongoing blazes, claiming it showed him being 'exposed'.

Elon Musk got a cold splash of reality from an LA County firefighter, extinguishing his lie that DEI is to blame for the LA wildfires.

Gavin Newsom has taken to X to share what he believes is a gotcha clip of Elon Musk being “exposed” for lying about the California wildfires. The MAGA billionaire, along with Donald Trump, has been a vocal critic of the governor’s response to the crisis.

The Los Angeles fires may have been a reignition of a blaze that began on New Year’s Eve due to residents setting off fireworks. An analysis by the Washington Post found that the blaze began on part of the Temescal Ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains, a place where an earlier fire had been ignited and put out.

Elon Musk has issued a warning to Cybertruck helpers in Los Angeles over looting. "Please be careful in some areas," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "There is non-zero risk of armed looters." Newsweek has reached out to Tesla 's Press Department and to the Los Angeles Police Department outside of normal working hours via email for comment.

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with distraught supporters in the days following the November election, he tried to walk a fine line between vilifying Donald Trump and acknowledging that there will be times when he and the president-elect would need to work together.

Los Angeles firefighters braced for the return of yet more dangerously strong gusts, as California's governor slammed "hurricane-force winds of misinformation."