Smog hangs in the air as the sun sets after a hot day in the Los Angeles Basin on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Federal prosecutors in Sacramento on Thursday unsealed an ...

The “check engine” light is the most annoying orange icon in America. Half the time the car feels fine, and the other half ...

Emissions testing has become a hot topic in the '90s and will continue to generate more interest as testing is enforced nationwide. You can count on it. For those rodders who have never experienced a ...

Alleged members of a Southern California ring that used a device to cheat state smog inspections are facing federal charges, officials announced Thursday, April 4. An indictment unsealed Thursday in ...

Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check ...

Telematics provider Samsara recently joined the California Bureau of Automotive Repair's continuous testing program pilot. The program aims to alleviate in-person smog testing for public sector fleets ...

Should old cars get a break from California’s smog check laws? Former “The Tonight Show” host and avid car collector Jay Leno thinks so. He’s thrown his support behind a bill in the state legislature ...

Q: My husband is the original owner of a 1998 Mazda B3000 pickup truck with a little over 100,000 miles on it. For a smog check, he takes it to Fidelity Automotive on Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz. If ...

Gordon Prow of the state Bureau of Automotive Repairs’ inspections unit prepares to test a car Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at a curbside smog check station on Kiernan Avenue in Salida. Garth Stapley ...