At the turn of the century, wildfires destroyed only about 3% of the California homes they came into contact with. By 2020, ...

An impending heat wave, the worst of the year, will dry out vegetation and send California's fire risk dramatically upward.

Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced plans to deploy a CAL FIRE Incident Management Team to Washington State to help manage the Sinlahekin Fire, which is burning in rural Okanogan County.

A decade after the state overhauled its agricultural overtime laws, increased overtime pay threatens to shut down grazing ...

A wildfire ignited in California’s Tuolumne County near Yosemite National Park. Here’s the latest on size, containment and ...

A firefighter on Cal Fire’s Mendocino Unit was injured Saturday night battling the Feliz Fire, which grew slightly to about ...

A Butte County judge found Ronnie Dean Stout II guilty Friday of starting the Park Fire in Northern California, exactly two ...

Stout was found guilty of intentionally starting the Park Fire on July 24, 2024, by pushing a burning car into a ravine in ...

Six puppies found alone in an active wildfire zone in Northern California are safe and headed toward adoption after firefighters carried them out of the fire area. The puppies were discovered by a CAL ...

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After late-spring rain, and with an El Niño brewing, experts say the outlook for the summer is especially complicated. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. She is based in ...