A California utility has agreed to pay the federal government $82.5 million stemming from an enormous 2020 wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert.

Southern California Edison has agreed to pay more than $82 million to settle claims from the 2020 Bobcat Fire that sparked when a tree hit power lines.

Former state Sen. Fran Pavley — best known for writing AB 32, the landmark 2006 law that established California’s first ...