Two large wildfires in Northern California, one near Shasta Lake, continue to burn amid extremely hot weather, sending smoke ...

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

The Fire Hazard Severity Zones are determined by the state fire marshal based on an area’s physical characteristics like ...

With 7 of its ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials must find new ways to clean up the ...

A NASA instrument aboard the International Space Station has detected contamination from Mexican sewage that spilled into the ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Fire restrictions are now in place for parts of western Nevada and eastern California. The restrictions will apply to lands west of U.S. Route 395, along with the Humboldt-Toiyabe ...

California’s weather whiplash has left the Golden State in a place of severe uncertainty about its diminishing water supply and increasing human and environmental demands for water.

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities.

The Lake Fire burning near Victorville stalled overnight, though Cal Fire predicts weather will make fighting the blaze tougher in the coming days.

A newly proposed brackish groundwater desalination project could deliver 28 million gallons of treated water per day to the city, officials said.

The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts dispute whether revoking the two-decade-old rule would help prevent ...