Evacuation orders were issued near Highway 166. The highway is closed from U.S. 101 near Santa Maria to Perkins Road in the ...

The Juniper Fire was relatively small, but the Madre Fire that followed was massive, becoming California's largest wildfire ...

The Madre Fire, now the largest wildfire in California this year, expanded to 79,630 acres by Saturday, July 5, prompting ...

A wildfire in central California has increased in scope and has become the largest wildfire in the state this year, surpassing the devastating blazes that ravaged the Los Angeles metropolitan ...

For the past 15 years, documentary photographer Karen Ballard has been working on a long-term project about Venice, a vibrant ...

Like many Northern California swimming holes, Yankee Jims Bridge in Colfax became a tourist and Instagram hot spot during the ...

Independence Day celebrations bring on a surge of cookouts and fireworks, and with it a troubling rise of firework-related ...

Firefighters in the Golden State are working to control dozens of blazes, with several large fires erupting in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The fires have triggered evacuations with ...

Two California bills – one signed, another on the way – hope to remake the state's film incentive program with far more money ...

Over 20 California prisons shut off outside communication for inmates under big restrictions that took effect in June, which led to hunger strikes.

California’s bigger, more frequent fires are endangering more residents—nearly 90 perished in the 2018 blaze that destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise.