This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations ...

The new listing makes it illegal to harm the animals without a special permit. California officials fight developers and residents to protect reclusive species: '[They] are facing an extinction vortex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to list six mountain lion populations in Central and Southern California ...

Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the charismatic predators that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay ...